> > Can you
> > imagine having all those user apps tha query pg_attribute supress that
> > column. Sound like too much work to me.
>
> To me it sounds like a thing that _must_ be done at major number change,
> so 7.0 is a good place.
>
> OTOH, we could provide SQL92 ways for getting the info that current user
> apps get by querying pg_attribute.
>
> IIRC it requires a bunch of views on system tables, some of which could be
> lifted straight from psql's \d* commands.
If this is going to require any significant backend baggage, I say drop
it. Things are complicated enough. I did temp tables in one file so we
would not have "I am a temp" and "I am not a temp" floating all over the
backend. I don't really want "I am not an attribute" around either.
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