Re: [pgsql-hackers] Re: Extending System Views: proposal for 8.1/8.2

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 02:53:11PM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Jim,
>
> > Perhaps a good way to accomplish both goals is to have the set of
> > human-readable views, and to add columns to the system tables/views that
> > conform with the new, more logical naming convention. This way people
> > accessing system information programmatically can use pg_catalog (and
> > migrate to the new naming convention), while people who are doing ad-hoc
> > queries can just hit the human-readable stuff.
>
> If you think that anyone on this list is going to let us re-name columns in
> the system *tables*, you're on more pain meds than I realized ...

What I figured.

> And in what way is using fully qualified names programmatically a problem?

It's not a problem; my only complaint is that the field names are
awkward as hell, which is why I suggested a new naming convention. If
it comes down to it, I'll settle for better names in the human readable
stuff and hope it eventually can be migrated to pg_catalog stuff. I just
figured changing both at the same time might make more sense.
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