Re: [PATCH] Space reservation v02

On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 13:06 +0100, Zdenek Kotala wrote:

> Space reservation MUST TO be implemented if we
> want to have 8.4->8.5 upgrade. 

Why not just add a few dummy columns onto each catalog table? If we need
space to expand a row we can just drop one of the dummy columns from the
new catalog definition.

That's an old DBA trick to avoid having to rewrite a table when you want
to add a column.

Seems much simpler to add columns than write special code, especially
when we might find the new code has bugs and hasn't done what we thought
it might.

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