Re: Unused pg_class columns - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Unused pg_class columns
Date
Msg-id 200105301433.f4UEXNn07967@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Unused pg_class columns  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> > Are these columns in pg_class:
> > relukeys | relfkeys | relhaspkey
> > unused or what?
> 
> They may be unused by the backend, but that doesn't mean that
> applications don't look at them.  I find references to relhaspkey
> in pgaccess, for example.

So pgaccess just reads it but doesn't write it, right?  Seems we should
mark this in the code so we can delete them some day, and perhaps remove
the refrence to it in pgaccess.

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