Re: passing parameters to CREATE INDEX

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 08:47:04AM +0300, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> On K, 2005-09-21 at 09:01 +0400, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> > it'd be nice if parameters could be passed at the creation time only and
> > somehow stored, so other functions could retrieve them. It's not
> > convenient but also safe.
>
> If not changing syntax is essential, then these could be passed by some
> GUC variables at index create time, then stored.
>
> This way one could have as many configurables a one likes .

The only major problem with that is that the parameters won't survive a
dump/restore. I don't know enough about what's it's needed for to know
if that's a problem...

So even if an index can store the parameter itself, there would need to
be a way for pg_dump to extract it.
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