Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Update autovacuum to use reloptions instead of a system catalog,

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Update autovacuum to use reloptions instead of a system catalog,
Date: 2009-02-11 19:59:48
Message-ID: 20090211195948.GS8924@alvh.no-ip.org
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Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:

>>> I tend to think this isn't a very good idea. It's difficult for
>>> applications to know whether a toast table will be created or not.
>>> They should be able to just set the toast options and not worry.
>>
>> The problem is where do we store the options?
>
> How about in the reloptions of the main relation?

Yes, perhaps that could be made to work.

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