| From: | Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com> |
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| To: | Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Comments on system tables and columns |
| Date: | 2011-03-28 14:44:29 |
| Message-ID: | 4D909ECD.6010003@timbira.com |
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Em 28-03-2011 08:14, Thom Brown escreveu:
> I notice that none of the system tables or columns thereof bear any
> comments. Is this intentional, or an oversight? I would have thought
> comments would be useful since the column names aren't exactly always
> self-explanatory.
>
It could be useful in some cases. IIRC the comments are not there to avoid
bloating the catalog. One month ago or so I saw a commit to comment operator
support functions. Maybe it is worth comment system catalog too [1].
[1] http://eulerto.blogspot.com/2010/11/comment-on-catalog-tables.html
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