Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 17:14:12 +0300
From: Arthur Zakirov <a.zakirov@postgrespro.ru>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] proposal: schema variables
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Hello Pavel,

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 09:21:24AM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> I hope so this proposal is good enough and simple.
> 
> Comments, notes?

As I understood variables are stored in pg_class table. Did you consider
storing variables in a special catalog table? It can be named as
pg_variable.

pg_variable table requires more code of course, but it would fix the issues:
- pg_class has a lot attributes which are not related with variables,
  and I think variables don't need many of them
- in a future variables might want to have some additional attributes
  which are not needed for relations, you can easily add them to
  pg_variable

What do you think?

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Arthur Zakirov
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