Re: Adding column comment to information_schema.columns

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: jearl(at)bullysports(dot)com
Cc: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, Justin Clift <jc(at)telstra(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Adding column comment to information_schema.columns
Date: 2004-07-02 02:05:57
Message-ID: 40E4C305.4070309@familyhealth.com.au
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> There is a huge difference between adhering to a standard and limiting
> yourself to a standard. The real question is whether PostgreSQL's
> goal is to support SQL standards, or whether PostgreSQL's goal is to
> give PostgreSQL users a useful set of tools.

There are literally _hundreds_ of fields we could add to the
information_schema. Either we add them all or we add none of them.

Chris

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