Re: Should next release by 8.0 (Was: Re: [GENERAL] I am - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From D'Arcy J.M. Cain
Subject Re: Should next release by 8.0 (Was: Re: [GENERAL] I am
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In response to Re: Should next release by 8.0 (Was: Re: [GENERAL] I am  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>)
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On July 5, 2002 10:27 am, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 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?

PyGreSQL pokes into the catalogues a bit.

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