Re: Comments on system tables and columns - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Euler Taveira de Oliveira
Subject Re: Comments on system tables and columns
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Msg-id 4D909ECD.6010003@timbira.com
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In response to Comments on system tables and columns  (Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>)
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Em 28-03-2011 08:14, Thom Brown escreveu:
> I notice that none of the system tables or columns thereof bear any
> comments.  Is this intentional, or an oversight?  I would have thought
> comments would be useful since the column names aren't exactly always
> self-explanatory.
>
It could be useful in some cases. IIRC the comments are not there to avoid 
bloating the catalog. One month ago or so I saw a commit to comment operator 
support functions. Maybe it is worth comment system catalog too [1].


[1] http://eulerto.blogspot.com/2010/11/comment-on-catalog-tables.html


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