Re: Doc patch to note which system catalogs have oids

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Karl O(dot) Pinc" <kop(at)meme(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Doc patch to note which system catalogs have oids
Date: 2012-09-24 03:14:33
Message-ID: 15845.1348456473@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Karl O. Pinc" <kop(at)meme(dot)com> writes:
> The attached patch documents the oid column of those
> system catalogs having an oid.

I think this is fundamentally wrong, or at least misleading, because it
documents OID as if it were an ordinary column. Somebody who did
"select * from pg_class" and didn't see any "oid" in the result would
think the docs were wrong.

It's possible that it's worth expending a boilerplate paragraph in each
of those pages to say "this catalog has OIDs" (or that it doesn't).
But this isn't the way.

regards, tom lane

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