Re: per-tablespace random_page_cost/seq_page_cost

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Subject: Re: per-tablespace random_page_cost/seq_page_cost
Date: 2009-10-28 01:13:29
Message-ID: 24926.1256692409@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I confess that I'm a bit mystified about the design of the reloptions
> stuff. It seems kind of odd to store structured data as text[]; it's
> kind of the opposite of what I would normally recommend as good
> database design.

It's definitely a bit EAV-ish :-(. But I don't see any particularly
easy way to modify it to store bool/int/float parameters in their native
types; do you?

regards, tom lane

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