Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Augmenting acs_objects - adding package_id, name, and clarifying other fields

I believe the PG penalty's four bytes, perhaps eight.  There's a bit in the column descriptor that says it's NULL (need to do this because NULL by definition is not representable by the column's datatype itself).

Since this is clearly a 5.1 issue ... for now perhaps we can agree in principle and chose a particular solution later?  That seems to be what you're saying with your three options ...

I'm also thinking that playing with cr_items would better integrate Karl's CR work with OpenACS proper ... there's considerable duplication of code as well as a messy datamodel.