"Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net> writes:
> Yes, but as I mentioned the idea here was to come up with something that
> is (hopefully) easy to define and implement. In other words, something
> that should be doable for 8.3.
Sorry, but that is not anywhere on my list of criteria for an important
feature. Having to live with a quick-and-dirty design for the
foreseeable future is an ugly prospect --- and anything that puts hints
into application code is going to lock us down to supporting it forever.
regards, tom lane