Re: [HACKERS] toast tables on system catalogs

2011-09-05 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar mar 01 19:03:35 -0300 2011: >> > Alvaro Herrera writes: >> > > Strangely, we made pg_database have a toast table, and the only reason >> > > for this is datacl.  Should we creat

Re: [HACKERS] toast tables on system catalogs

2011-09-05 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar mar 01 19:03:35 -0300 2011: > > Alvaro Herrera writes: > > > Strangely, we made pg_database have a toast table, and the only reason > > > for this is datacl. Should we create toast tables for the remaining > > > catalogs? > > > > As

Re: [HACKERS] toast tables on system catalogs

2011-03-01 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar mar 01 19:03:35 -0300 2011: > Alvaro Herrera writes: > > Strangely, we made pg_database have a toast table, and the only reason > > for this is datacl. Should we create toast tables for the remaining > > catalogs? > > As I commented on your blog, this is n

Re: [HACKERS] toast tables on system catalogs

2011-03-01 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera writes: > Strangely, we made pg_database have a toast table, and the only reason > for this is datacl. Should we create toast tables for the remaining > catalogs? As I commented on your blog, this is nonsense. pg_database has a TOAST table becase we thought it might need one for

[HACKERS] toast tables on system catalogs

2011-03-01 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Hi, Someone on IRC recently noticed that you can't grant USAGE privileges on a table to a large number of roles. (My experiment says 2466 works, 2467 doesn't). Of course, this is wrong and all that. I wrote a blog article about this: http://www.commandprompt.com/blogs/alvaro_herrera/2011/03/gra