Re: ToDo List Item - System Table Index Clustering

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Simone Aiken
>> <saiken(at)quietlycompetent(dot)com> wrote:
>>> Pages like this one have column comments for the system tables:
>>>
>>> http://www.psql.it/manuale/8.3/catalog-pg-attribute.html
>
>> Oh, I see.  I don't think we want to go there.  We'd need some kind of
>> system for keeping the two places in sync.
>
> I seem to recall some muttering about teaching genbki to extract such
> comments from the SGML sources or perhaps the C header files.  I tend to
> agree though that it would be a lot more work than it's worth.  And as
> you say, pg_description entries aren't free.
>
> Which brings up another point though.  I have a personal TODO item to
> make the comments for operator support functions more consistent:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/21407.1287157253@sss.pgh.pa.us
> Should we consider removing those comments altogether, instead?

I could go either way on that. Most of those comments are pretty
short, aren't they? How much storage are they really costing us?

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