Re: A different approach to extension NO USER DATA feature

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
Cc: Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: A different approach to extension NO USER DATA feature
Date: 2011-02-07 17:57:51
Message-ID: 21642.1297101471@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
> On Feb 7, 2011, at 8:57 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah, this is another approach that one could take instead of having
>> per-row flags. I'm not sure that it's better, much less so much better
>> that we should force extensions to do it that way and not the other.
>> But it's definitely another argument against making a hard-wired
>> assumption that there will be a flag column.

> Would the flag column usually be invisible, like the system oid column?

No, it's just a column.

regards, tom lane

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