Re: Poll: are people okay with function/operator table redesign?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Victor Yegorov <vyegorov(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Poll: are people okay with function/operator table redesign?
Date: 2020-04-20 22:14:33
Message-ID: 20200420221433.GA21139@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2020-Apr-20, Tom Lane wrote:

> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > There's one with a separate column for the operator, without types, at
> > the left (the "with names" example at
> > https://postgr.es/m/14380.1587242177@sss.pgh.pa.us ). That seemed
> > pretty promising -- not sure why it was discarded.
>
> Well, I wouldn't say it was discarded --- but there sure wasn't
> a groundswell of support.

Ah.

> Looking at it again, I'd be inclined not to bother with the
> morerows trick but just to have an operator name entry in each row.
> This table is a bit of an outlier anyway, I'm finding --- very few
> of the operator tables have multiple entries per operator name.

No disagreement here. 'morerows' attribs are always a messy business.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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