Re: Simple row serialization? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Ivan Voras
Subject Re: Simple row serialization?
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In response to Re: Simple row serialization?  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> Why not create the audit tables with composite types rather than strings?
>
>    create table audit_foo_table as (who text, when timestamptz, old foo,
> new foo);

Because this would lead to having a log/shadow/audit table for every
table I wish to log. (or is there an opaque "generic row" data type?
"record" and "any" generate syntax errors).

> Or you could use an hstore (see contrib).

Doesn't seem applicable.

> Or you could possibly use some of the XML support in 8.3 for serialization.

I need this for 8.1 :)

> This is a usage question, so it really doesn't belong on -hackers.

Thank you - I'm reading the list through gmane and I didn't notice its
name "gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.general" is incorrect. I'll find a
more suitable list.


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