On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 11:52:39AM +0200, Tom Lane wrote: > Morris de Oryx <morrisdeoryx@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Given that Amazon is bragging this week about turning off Oracle, it seems > > like they could kick some resources towards contributing something to the > > Postgres project. With that in mind, is the idea of defining dictionaries > > within a table somehow meritless, or unexpectedly difficult? > > Well, it'd just be totally different. I don't think anybody cares to > provide two separate definitions of common dictionaries (which'd have to > somehow be kept in sync). Might crafty use of server side COPY TO ... PROGRAM ... enable OP to drop in dictionary data files as needed ? Karsten -- GPG 40BE 5B0E C98E 1713 AFA6 5BC0 3BEA AC80 7D4F C89B