On 2013-05-03 12:10:14 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> writes: > > I'm more concerned about moving information which really should be in > > the system catalogs out into magic files on disk.. > > Right. The whole thing is just a kluge, which I'm convinced we'll > regret sooner or later --- probably sooner.
I tentatively agree as well. The only argument for introducing some additional location for such information is that it would be the start of an infrastructure for information we would need for incrementally adding checksums, page upgrades and such. > I would much rather drop > unlogged matviews for now and put scannability status into pg_class > where it belongs. I have no problem with that. And getting to the point were we can switch databases in a backend in at least a restricted environment is a good thing. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
