On 2022-02-28 18:08:48 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > =?UTF-8?B?U29maWEgS29waWtvdmE=?= <s.kopik...@postgrespro.ru> writes: > > ACL lists in tables may potentially be large in size. I suggest adding > > TOAST support for system tables, namely pg_class, pg_attribute and > > pg_largeobject_metadata, for they include ACL columns. > > TBH, the idea of adding a toast table to pg_class scares the daylights > out of me. I do not for one minute believe that you've fixed every > problem that will cause, nor do I think "allow wider ACLs" is a > compelling enough reason to take the risk. > > I wonder if it'd be practical to move the ACLs for relations > and attributes into some new table, indexed like pg_depend or > pg_description, so that we could dodge that whole problem. > pg_attrdef is a prototype for how this could work. > > (Obviously, once we had such a table the ACLs for other things > could be put in it, but I'm not sure that the ensuing breakage > would be justified for other sorts of objects.)
As there has been no progress since this email, I'm marking this CF entry as returned with feedback for now. - Andres
