>>>>> "scott" == scott marlowe <scott.marlowe> writes:
scott> Plus the fact that the underlying pg_ tables are stable scott> from release to release makes it a bit
awkwardto upgrade scott> the servers they play on. Most of them have gone ahead and scott> created views that give
thema consistent view of the parts scott> of the database they need.
This is exactly the reason why in db2 _no_ guarantees are made
regarding the constancy of the system catalogs (that are in the SYSIBM
schema). Instead, the equivalent views (in the SYSCAT schema) are
_never_ broken (whether in a point release or a new version). In fact,
the SYSCAT views correspond to the ISO SQL standard.
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