Re: ToDo List Item - System Table Index Clustering

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Simone Aiken <saiken(at)ulfheim(dot)net> wrote:
> In my experience size increases related to documentation are almost always
> worth it.  So I'm prejudiced right out of the gate.  I was wondering if
> every pg_ table gets copied out to every database ..  if there is already a
> mechanism for not replicating all of them we could utilize views or
> re-writes rules to merge a single copy of catalog comments in a separate
> table with each deployed database's pg_descriptions.

All of them get copied, except for a handful of so-called shared
catalogs. Changing that would be difficult.

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