Re: Has there been any discussion of custom dictionaries beingdefined in the database? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Karsten Hilbert
Subject Re: Has there been any discussion of custom dictionaries beingdefined in the database?
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Msg-id 20191017101652.GH7534@hermes.hilbert.loc
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In response to Re: Has there been any discussion of custom dictionaries being defined in the database?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 11:52:39AM +0200, Tom Lane wrote:

> Morris de Oryx <morrisdeoryx@gmail.com> writes:
> > Given that Amazon is bragging this week about turning off Oracle, it seems
> > like they could kick some resources towards contributing something to the
> > Postgres project. With that in mind, is the idea of defining dictionaries
> > within a table somehow meritless, or unexpectedly difficult?
>
> Well, it'd just be totally different.  I don't think anybody cares to
> provide two separate definitions of common dictionaries (which'd have to
> somehow be kept in sync).

Might crafty use of server side

    COPY TO ... PROGRAM ...

enable OP to drop in dictionary data files as needed ?

Karsten
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