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Re: Syntax for partitioning

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-10-30T21:16:16Z
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Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> writes:
> I haven't looked at all of these places yet, so maybe a few simple
> changes would allow us to treat typmod as a full 32 bits. Or perhaps it
> could just be expanded to a signed 64-bit int. What do you think?

Neither is likely to happen, and even disregarding that, I doubt people
would be real happy with a design like this.  Where are you going to
put the typmod for the contained type?

			regards, tom lane