Your idea could not be made to work in the actual
environment.
Everyone is ignoring the point of this.
PG doesn't do something(s) that a second-rate
commercial db can. And it does it very nicely.
Thats the point.
I'm looking for a hacker to say 'Thats interesting,
I'll have a look at sometime.'
Anybody interested?
Regards
> Honestly, I think it's the same reason someone would want to
>insert data as a single string, then create a view that does substrings to
>produce the appearance of a multi-column table (which, I assume is then
>selected on from certain fields, causing table scans). Sometimes, people
>try to wedge efficiency into an inefficient design, which rarely works.
>My approach here would be to substr before insertion, then make a view to
>concatenate the results.
>
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