Re: [PATCH] Opclass parameters

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 9:46 AM Nikolay Shaplov <dhyan(at)nataraj(dot)su> wrote:
> 1. I've seen you've added a new attribute into pg_index. Why??!!
> As far as I can get, if have index built on several columns (A1, A2, A3) you
> can set, own opclass for each column. And set individual options for each
> opclass if we are speaking about options. So I would expect to have these
> options not in pg_index, but in pg_attribute. And we already have one there:
> attoptions.I just do not get how you have come to per-index options. May be I
> should read code more attentively...

It seems sensible to have both per-column options and per-index
options. For example, we've got the fastupdate option for GIN, which
is a property of the index as a whole, not any individual column. But
you could also want to specify some column-specific options, which
seems to be what this patch is about, since an opclass is associated
with an individual column. And since an index can have more than one
column, I agree that it seems more appropriate to store this
information in pg_attribute than pg_index.

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