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

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Suggestion: additional system views
Date
Msg-id 200506072030.51008.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: Suggestion: additional system views  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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.

System tables are primarily useful if (a) the information is variable 
for a given installation, or (b) client programs may want to 
automatically process the information.  Neither seems to apply here.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


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