Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] 'pgsql/src/bin/initdb initdb.sh' - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] 'pgsql/src/bin/initdb initdb.sh'
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Msg-id 199802232026.PAA06214@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] 'pgsql/src/bin/initdb initdb.sh'  (The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>)
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> > >
> > > create view pg_users as ...
> > > ERROR:  Illegal class name: pg_users -- pg_ is reserved for system catalogs
> >
> > Oops, yep.
> >
> > I guess I just liked that the pg_ stuff was all system stuff.  Do you
> > get this error when creating it from postgres, as initdb does?  That
> > would be a solution.  Worked here.
>
>     My thought was more splitting the difference between a system
> table (pg_) vs system view (db_) *shrug*  Okay, I was grasping here :)
>
>
>

I am afraid the db_user is going to confuse people, and they are going
to start asking how it got there, or they are going to delete it and ask
why \d doesn't work.

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