David Fetter escribió:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 09:13:29PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > > I confess that I'm a bit mystified about the design of the
> > > reloptions stuff. It seems kind of odd to store structured data as
> > > text[]; it's kind of the opposite of what I would normally
> > > recommend as good database design.
> >
> > It's definitely a bit EAV-ish :-(. But I don't see any particularly
> > easy way to modify it to store bool/int/float parameters in their
> > native types; do you?
>
> More columns, each of the correct type, with the table constraint that
> at most one may be populated is how I handle stuff like that.
So we would have "spcintoptions", "spcfloatoptions", and so on? (I
don't see the need for the table constraint in this case.)
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