From:
Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To:
Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc:
Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, Justin Clift <jc(at)telstra(dot)net>,PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject:
Re: Adding column comment to information_schema.columns
Date:
2004-07-03 14:06:48
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20040703140648.GA21258@wolff.to (view raw or flat )
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2004-07-01 03:00:15 from Justin Clift <jc(at)telstra(dot)net>
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2004-07-01 17:04:33 from Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
2004-07-01 17:07:31 from Dennis Bjorklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org>
2004-07-01 17:30:59 from Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
2004-07-02 02:24:58 from "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
2004-07-02 02:50:45 from Justin Clift <jc(at)telstra(dot)net>
2004-07-01 17:23:10 from Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
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2004-07-02 02:05:57 from Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
2004-07-02 02:07:35 from Justin Clift <jc(at)telstra(dot)net>
2004-07-02 11:57:18 from Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
2004-07-02 14:12:07 from Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
2004-07-02 14:30:05 from Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
2004-07-02 15:03:12 from Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
2004-07-02 17:04:14 from Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
2004-07-02 20:41:06 from Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
2004-07-03 10:02:01 from Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
2004-07-03 14:06:48 from Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
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2004-07-05 03:11:10 from Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
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2004-07-05 04:13:38 from Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
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2004-07-03 11:07:59 from Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
2004-07-01 07:11:27 from Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
2004-07-01 05:42:58 from Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
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On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 18:02:01 +0800,
Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
> >>Why are they useful???? If you want PG specific stuff then use the PG
> >>specific catalogs!!!
> >
> >The information schema could be used to provide a more stable interface.
> >The pg catalog changes from release to release and it would be nice to
> >be able to write code which is more future proof.
>
> Really? It will have the same problem! That being that when we change
> stuff in the catalogs, we will need to change it in the info schema as
> well more than likely...
That isn't my expectation. I would expect that in most cases the pg catalog
would be changed to include more information, not less and that the
old information affected by a change could still be obtained by using
a more complicated view.
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