Re: [PATCH] Store Extension Options - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: [PATCH] Store Extension Options
Date
Msg-id 5320F9BA.2020106@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Store Extension Options  (Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: [PATCH] Store Extension Options  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 03/12/2014 03:58 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> I don't like the idea of using reloptions to let people attach
> arbitrary unvalidated settings to tables.  I consider the way things
> work with GUCs to be a bug, not a feature, and definitely not
> something I want to propagate into every other area of the system
> where the underlying storage format happens to allow it.

+1.  Relopts are one of the uglier warts we have.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
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