Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of vie jul 22 11:33:09 -0400 2011:
> This problem reminds me a great deal of the problems associated with
> managing security labels for SE-Linux. There aren't that many
> distinct values, so ideally it would be nice to store an OID -> string
> mapping somewhere and just store the OIDs in the main table. But a
> new security label can appear at any time, and it doesn't work to have
> the transaction that discovers it do the insert into the mapping
> table. Time zones have the same problem, more or less. Now, maybe if
> we had non-transactional tables like Alvaro keeps muttering about...
Oh, I wasn't relating these problems to non transactional tables ...
Hmm.
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