Re: COMMENT ON [GROUP/USER]

Rod Taylor wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 14:46, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>Bruce Momjian wrote:
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>>>Another problem is that pg_description is per-database, while
>>>pg_user/group are global for all databases.
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>>databases are also per cluster, but we have comments on those.
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>>Could we keep the user/group comments in those tables instead of in 
>>pg_description?
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>Comments longer than ~7k would need a toast table. At the moment, toast
>tables don't work on a global basis.
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Well, presumably we don't want to keep their life story ;-)

I was just thinking out loud I guess - I see there are wrinkles I hadn't 
considered.

cheers

andrew