RE: Big 7.1 open items

From: "Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM>, "'Peter Eisentraut'" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Thomas Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, "Jan Wieck" <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
Subject: RE: Big 7.1 open items
Date: 2000-06-28 17:28:45
Message-ID: EKEJJICOHDIEMGPNIFIJGEHCCCAA.Inoue@tpf.co.jp
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
>
> However I do see a bit of a problem here: since DROP DATABASE is
> ordinarily executed by a backend that's running in a different database,
> how's it going to read pg_class of the target database? Perhaps it will
> be necessary to fire up a sub-backend that runs in the target DB for
> long enough to kill all the user tables. Looking messy...
>

Why do we have to have system tables per *database* ?
Is there anything wrong with global system tables ?
And how about adding dbid to pg_class,pg_proc etc ?

Regards.

Hiroshi Inoue

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