Re: [HACKERS] COMMENT ON [GROUP/USER]

[Andrew Dunstan]

Rod Taylor wrote:

On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 14:46, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
 

Bruce Momjian wrote:

   

Another problem is that pg_description is per-database, while
pg_user/group are global for all databases.


     

databases are also per cluster, but we have comments on those.

Could we keep the user/group comments in those tables instead of in 
pg_description?
   

Comments longer than ~7k would need a toast table. At the moment, toast
tables don't work on a global basis.
 

Well, presumably we don't want to keep their life story ;-)

I was just thinking out loud I guess - I see there are wrinkles I hadn't 
considered.

cheers

andrew

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