Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> >> Trying to get back on point. What is the scope of work for the TODO
> >> item? Forget everything else I brought up. What is the goal of the
> >> existing TODO?
> >
> > I'm not sure that the TODO item has a reason to live at all, but surely
> > the first item of work for it should be to figure out what its use-case
> > is. If pg_dump isn't going to use these functions, what will?
>
> Well I can't think of a reason to use the functions as a way to deliver
> CREATE statements.
>
> Anyone else have thoughts?
They seem useful because they allow abstract access to system
information without mucking with the system tables.
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