Florian Pflug wrote:
> On Oct21, 2011, at 16:42 , Phil Sorber wrote:
> > If you did want to make them immutable, I also like Florian's idea of
> > a dependency graph. This would make the dumps less readable though.
>
> Hm, I kinda reversed my opinion on that, though - i.e., I no longer think
> that the dependency graph idea has much merit. For two reasons
>
> First, dependencies work on OIDs, not on names. Thus, for the dependency
> machinery to work for GUCs, they'd also need to store OIDs instead of
> names of referenced schema objects. (Otherwise you get into trouble if
> objects are renamed)
>
> Which of course doesn't work, at least for roles, because roles are
> shared objects, but referenced objects might be database-local.
> (search_path, for example).
Is this a TODO?
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