Re: Proposal: move column defaults into pg_attribute along with attacl - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: Proposal: move column defaults into pg_attribute along with attacl
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Msg-id 20080929093857.GB28076@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: Proposal: move column defaults into pg_attribute along with attacl  (Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch>)
Responses Re: Proposal: move column defaults into pg_attribute along with attacl  (Markus Wanner <markus.wanner@programmfabrik.de>)
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* Markus Wanner (markus@bluegap.ch) wrote:
> Stephen Frost wrote:
> > * Markus Wanner (markus.wanner@programmfabrik.de) wrote:
> >> What does the subobject column for pg_shdepend buy us?
> >
> > Tracking column-level ACL dependencies rather than having those
> > dependencies only be at the table-level.  This complicates
> > pg_shdepend some, but simplifies the dependency handling in the
> > ACL area and in handling table/column drops.
>
> With a separate table? Or as part of pg_attribute (which can handle NULL
> and VARLENA attributes now?)

As part of pg_attribute..  Having a seperate table would be an
alternative to adding a column to pg_shdepend.
Stephen

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