Re: Suggestion: additional system views - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Treat
Subject Re: Suggestion: additional system views
Date
Msg-id 200506061836.27744.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
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In response to Re: Suggestion: additional system views  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Suggestion: additional system views
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On Monday 06 June 2005 17:35, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
> > Bruce,
> >
> > > I do like this idea.  Can you make a general patch?  Do others like the
> > > idea of system tables showing error codes and keywords?
> >
> > Yes.  However, I think the idea of additional system views has already
> > been shot down in flames.
> >
> > Unless people think that it's reasonable to have a system view for error
> > codes and not one for, say, operators?
>
> Uh, I thought the shoot-down was for duplication of existing information
> in new system tables, not the addition of new system table information,
> e.g. we have pg_operator, but no list of error codes or keywords in the
> system tables.

Would this include a new view for showing user priviliges, rather than the 
current method of incense and chanting that are needed to divine the meaning 
of pg_class.relacl ?

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Robert Treat
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL


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