| From: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net> |
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| To: | Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> |
| Cc: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: passing parameters to CREATE INDEX |
| Date: | 2005-09-21 05:47:04 |
| Message-ID: | 1127281624.4877.2.camel@fuji.krosing.net |
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On K, 2005-09-21 at 09:01 +0400, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> > What syntax were you envisioning? Does this value just need to be
> > passed to GiST at the creation of the the index, or does it actually
> > need to remembered by the backend and passed each call? At the moment
> > there is some discussion on changes to the index interface so now is
> > the time to ask for what you want...
>
> it'd be nice if parameters could be passed at the creation time only and
> somehow stored, so other functions could retrieve them. It's not
> convenient but also safe.
If not changing syntax is essential, then these could be passed by some
GUC variables at index create time, then stored.
This way one could have as many configurables a one likes .
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Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net>
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