It would be wonderful to be able to create comments
on users and groups. In particular, I need a place
to store the user's name. Yes, I could make a user
table, but that seems overkill as all of the other
aspects of a user are already in the metadata.
Best,
Clark
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Clark C. Evans
Clark C. Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It would be wonderful to be able to create comments
on users and groups. In particular, I need a place
to store the user's name. Yes, I could make a user
table, but that seems overkill as all of the other
aspects of a user are already in the
Tom Lane wrote:
Clark C. Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It would be wonderful to be able to create comments
on users and groups. In particular, I need a place
to store the user's name. Yes, I could make a user
table, but that seems overkill as all of the other
aspects of a user are
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?
cheers
andrew
It's rumoured that Andrew Dunstan once said:
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
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
This doesn't look good. If we throw a WARNING, why do we not insert
anything into pg_description. Seems we should throw an error, or do the
insert with a warning.
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Mike Mascari wrote:
Andrew Dunstan wrote:
Bruce
Bruce Momjian wrote:
This doesn't look good. If we throw a WARNING, why do we not insert
anything into pg_description. Seems we should throw an error, or do the
insert with a warning.
It essentially makes the behavior deprecated and allows dumps to be
restored properly (without the
Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Comments longer than ~7k would need a toast table. At the moment, toast
tables don't work on a global basis.
Sure they do ... in fact, all the shared catalogs have one.
I think the idea of putting comments directly into pg_shadow and friends
is too icky to
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
Rod Taylor wrote:
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On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 15:46, Bruce Momjian wrote:
This doesn't look good. If we throw a WARNING, why do we not insert
anything into pg_description. Seems we should throw an error, or do the
insert with a warning.
It used to be an error,
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