| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Chris Travers <chris(at)verkiel(dot)metatrontech(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Chris Travers <chris(at)travelamericas(dot)com>, Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, "Aly S(dot)P Dharshi" <aly(dot)dharshi(at)telus(dot)net>, "Gavin M(dot) Roy" <gmr(at)ehpg(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL Gotchas |
| Date: | 2005-10-16 22:38:24 |
| Message-ID: | 10901.1129502304@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Chris Travers <chris(at)verkiel(dot)metatrontech(dot)com> writes:
> I make the following assumptions:
> 1) All backend references to identifiers are treated as quoted by the
> backend as mentioned in a previous thread.
> 2) Same with official clients like psql.
> 3) We don't guarantee complete backward compatibility in the system
> catalogs anyway (note that this is a trivial problem to solve if 1 above
> is solved-- schemas, views, and rules can accomplish some cool tricks
> :-) ).
None of these assumptions are acceptable, particularly not #2. In
reality #2 is a proxy for "I'm willing to break all existing clients
that look at the system catalogs". Which we're not.
regards, tom lane
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