Re: mark wath catalogs are shared - was:(Re: [NOVICE] which database to login to to create global users?) - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: mark wath catalogs are shared - was:(Re: [NOVICE] which database to login to to create global users?)
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Msg-id 3151.1136391375@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: mark wath catalogs are shared - was:(Re: [NOVICE] which database  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> It seems like clutter to me.  Whether a catalog is shared or not is not
>> necessarily the first thing you want to know about it.

> I am thinking the table should be split into two, one for the global
> tables, and another for the db-local tables.

That's even worse, as it converts the distinction into something you
must know even to look up the table.

> I don't think we make it clear enough which tables are global.

I think the labels appearing in the per-catalog descriptions are plenty
clear.

            regards, tom lane

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