Re: Show tables query - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Show tables query
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Msg-id 25459.1144016926@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Show tables query  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Unfortunately, the SQL committee did tremendous damage to that
>> argument by changing the definitions of some of those views in
>> SQL2003 :-(

> The only changes to existing views were one renamed column and two or
> three cases with relaxed permission checks so that more objects are now
> shown.  I do not expect any application to break.

I'm sure the committee thinks the same, and they may even be right.
I'm just pointing out that they've lost the moral high ground of
"this API will never change".

            regards, tom lane

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