Re: adminpack and pg_catalog - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: adminpack and pg_catalog
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Msg-id 20061020044411.GS26892@nasby.net
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In response to adminpack and pg_catalog  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 02:37:34PM -0400, Neil Conway wrote:
> Why does adminpack install functions into pg_catalog? This is
> inconsistent with the rest of the contrib/ packages, not to mention the
> definition of pg_catalog itself (which ought to hold builtin object
> definitions). And as AndrewSN pointed out on IRC, it also breaks
> pg_dump.

When we wrote newsysviews we faced the same dilema of where to put
things. We ultimately decided on a pg_ schema in the hope that no one
else would use that name (we also prefaced everything in the schema with
pg_, but a big reason for that was potential inclusion into core).
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Jim Nasby                                            jim@nasby.net
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