Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
Is there a specific reason for
pg_enum.enumname to be type name and not type text?
IIRC at one stage Tom wanted to try to make these identifiers, but that
was quickly abandoned. This might be a hangover from that.
Actually I think I see the reason: it's a bit of a pain in the neck to
use the syscache mechanism with text-type lookup keys. I'm not 100%
convinced that we really need to have syscaches on pg_enum, but if those
stay then it's probably not worth the trouble to avoid the limitation.
That rings a faint bell.
If we don't have syscaches on pg_enum won't enum i/o get more expensive?
cheers
andrew
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