Added to TODO:
* Allow CREATE INDEX to take an additional parameter for use with special index types
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Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 08:47:04AM +0300, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> > On K, 2005-09-21 at 09:01 +0400, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> > > it'd be nice if parameters could be passed at the creation time only and
> > > somehow stored, so other functions could retrieve them. It's not
> > > convenient but also safe.
> >
> > If not changing syntax is essential, then these could be passed by some
> > GUC variables at index create time, then stored.
> >
> > This way one could have as many configurables a one likes .
>
> The only major problem with that is that the parameters won't survive a
> dump/restore. I don't know enough about what's it's needed for to know
> if that's a problem...
>
> So even if an index can store the parameter itself, there would need to
> be a way for pg_dump to extract it.
> --
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a
> > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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