Re: Comments on system tables and columns - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Comments on system tables and columns
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Msg-id 1301324521-sup-2049@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Comments on system tables and columns  (Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>)
Responses Re: Comments on system tables and columns
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Excerpts from Thom Brown's message of lun mar 28 08:14:07 -0300 2011:
> Hi,
> 
> I notice that none of the system tables or columns thereof bear any
> comments.  Is this intentional, or an oversight?  I would have thought
> comments would be useful since the column names aren't exactly always
> self-explanatory.

Bruce has been working on changes to have catalog objects (tables, views
and columns) contain comments, but he deferred it to 9.2 because it
involved nontrivial pieces of infrastructure (mainly to avoid
duplication with the SGML catalog documentation).

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