Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> I think I'm missing something. Why are pg_catalog.* tables in my search path
> at all? My search path seems to be set to $user,public. is pg_catalog
> implicitly appended there?
Yes. See TFM:
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/ddl-schemas.html
particularly section 5.8.5.
regards, tom lane