| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Prepping to break every past release... |
| Date: | 2009-03-04 22:32:46 |
| Message-ID: | 49AF018E.6080504@agliodbs.com |
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Something that continues to grind my teeth about our software is that we
> are horribly inconsistent with our system catalogs. Now I am fully and
> 100% aware that changing this will break things in user land but I want
> to do it anyway. In order to do that I believe we need to come up with a
> very loud, extremely verbose method of communicating to people that 8.5
> *will* break things.
>
> It seems to me that the best method would be to follow the
> information_schema naming conventions as information_schema is standard
> compliant (right?).
Well, honestly, this was one of the reasons why AndrewSN, David and I
pushed NewSysViews. Non-hackers really shouldn't be accessing the
system catalogs directly, and if information_schema doesn't give them
enough data, we should start adding new views to I_S.
--Josh
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