Re: [PATCH] Store Extension Options

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Store Extension Options
Date: 2014-03-13 00:20:10
Message-ID: 5320F9BA.2020106@agliodbs.com
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On 03/12/2014 03:58 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> I don't like the idea of using reloptions to let people attach
> arbitrary unvalidated settings to tables. I consider the way things
> work with GUCs to be a bug, not a feature, and definitely not
> something I want to propagate into every other area of the system
> where the underlying storage format happens to allow it.

+1. Relopts are one of the uglier warts we have.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com

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