On Sep 27, 2009, at 9:19 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> What we seem to be lacking in this case is a good tech-speak
> option for the underlying catalog name. I'm still not happy
> with having a catalog and a view that are exactly the same
> except for "s", especially since as Alvaro notes that won't
> lead to desirable tab-completion behavior. OTOH, we have
> survived with pg_index vs pg_indexes, so maybe it wouldn't
> kill us.
Another option is to revisit the set of system views (http://
pgfoundry.org/projects/newsysviews/). IIRC there was some other
recent reason we wanted to do that.
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