Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>
>> Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
>>
>>> It seems harder to come up with a general purpose syntax to support the
>>> feature in case of toast tables, though.
>>>
>
>
>> There's already general purpose syntax for relation options which can be
>> used to get options that do not ultimately end up in
>> pg_class.reloptions. An existing example is WITH (oids). One such
>> option could be used here.
>>
>
> That would cover the problem for OIDs needed during CREATE TABLE, but
> what about types and enum values?
>
> The half-formed idea I had was a set of GUC variables:
>
> set next_pg_class_oid = 12345;
> set next_pg_type_oid = 12346;
> set next_toast_table_oid = ...
> set next_toast_index_oid = ...
>
> and finally it could do CREATE TABLE. CREATE TYPE would only need
> next_pg_type_oid (except for a composite type).
>
> Enum values wouldn't work too well this way, unless we were willing to
> have a GUC that took a list of OIDs. I thought about having binary
> upgrade mode build up the enum list one entry at a time, by adding
> a command like
>
> ALTER TYPE enum_type ADD VALUE 'label' WITH OID oid
>
> which would also have some use for modifying enums on the fly.
>
>
>
It's going to be fairly grotty whatever we do. I'm worried a bit that
we'll be providing some footguns, but I guess we'll just need to hold
our noses and do whatever it takes.
cheers
andrew
