Re: pgsql-server: Minor catalog cleanups for composite-type

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql-server: Minor catalog cleanups for composite-type
Date: 2004-06-07 13:36:59
Message-ID: 200406071336.i57DaxF23545@candle.pha.pa.us
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > Uh, why worry? If you had an application that depended in any way
> > shape or form on the SET type, then I already broke it ...
>
> Wasn't it a pg_upgrade consideration or something?

No. The issue was having applications hard-code type oids for
performance reasons.

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