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From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: Should next release by 8.0 (Was: Re: [GENERAL] I am
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Msg-id 20020705112429.Q22387-100000@mail1.hub.org
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In response to Re: Should next release by 8.0 (Was: Re: [GENERAL] I am being interviewed by OReilly )  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Should next release by 8.0 (Was: Re: [GENERAL] I am  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Re: Should next release by 8.0 (Was: Re: [GENERAL] I am  ("D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>)
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On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > Actually, the "big" change is such that will, at least as far as I'm
> > understanding it, break pretty much every front-end applicaiton ...
>
> Only those that inspect system catalogs --- I'm not sure what percentage
> that is, but surely it's not "pretty much every" one.  psql for example
> is only affected because of its \d commands.

Okay, anyone have any ideas of other packages that would inspect the
system catalog?  The only ones I could think of, off the top of my head,
would be pgAccess, pgAdmin and phpPgAdmin ... but I would guess that any
'administratively oriented' interface would face similar problems, no?







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