Re: Column storage positions

From: "Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD" <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>
To: "Phil Currier" <pcurrier(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Column storage positions
Date: 2007-02-22 16:30:24
Message-ID: E1539E0ED7043848906A8FF995BDA57901CAF70E@m0143.s-mxs.net
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> > In any case I think it's foolish not to tackle both issues at once.
> > We know we'd like to have both features and we know that
> all the same
> > bits of code need to be looked at to implement either.
>
> I guess I disagree with that sentiment. I don't think it's
> necessary to bundle these two features together, even if some
> analysis will be duplicated between them, since they are
> completely distinct in a functional sense and will touch
> different places in the code.

I fully agree with Phil here.

And I also see a lot of unhappiness from users of system tables
when column numbers all over the system tables would not be logical
column
positions any more.

Andreas

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