Re: Removal of pg_variable, pg_inheritproc, pg_ipl - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Removal of pg_variable, pg_inheritproc, pg_ipl
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Msg-id 200105150023.f4F0NdB25488@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Removal of pg_variable, pg_inheritproc, pg_ipl  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Removal of pg_variable, pg_inheritproc, pg_ipl  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >> Why did you remove indisclustered?
> >>
> >> Useless it may be, but gratuitously breaking at least two extant clients
> >> doesn't seem like a good idea ...
>
> > I patched the clients also.  Is that a problem?
>
> Yes.  People frequently try to use clients that aren't the same rev
> as the server.  There's no good reason to remove this column at all,
> and creating a version incompatibility for two major clients seems like
> sufficient reason not to.
>
> I recommend reverting that change.

Doing it now, but just to the system catalogs.  No reason to keep the
backend code.

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