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Re: Selecting a constant question

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Dann Corbit" <DCorbit@connx.com>
Cc: "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog@svana.org>, "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, "Gregory Stark" <stark@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, "Larry McGhaw" <lmcghaw@connx.com>
Date: 2007-06-11T22:49:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
"Dann Corbit" <DCorbit@connx.com> writes:
>> To be honest, the concept that a widget requires a constant that can't
>> be changed later is also a bit odd.

> Not when the data itself is a constant that cannot be changed.

Surely this case is not sufficiently important to justify designing
your entire application (not to mention the client/server protocol)
around it.  You're always going to have variable-width columns in there
somewhere.

			regards, tom lane