Re: Selecting a constant question

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Dann Corbit" <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>
Cc: "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Gregory Stark" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Larry McGhaw" <lmcghaw(at)connx(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Selecting a constant question
Date: 2007-06-11 22:49:52
Message-ID: 26927.1181602192@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Dann Corbit" <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com> writes:
>> To be honest, the concept that a widget requires a constant that can't
>> be changed later is also a bit odd.

> Not when the data itself is a constant that cannot be changed.

Surely this case is not sufficiently important to justify designing
your entire application (not to mention the client/server protocol)
around it. You're always going to have variable-width columns in there
somewhere.

regards, tom lane

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