Re: adminpack and pg_catalog

From: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
Subject: Re: adminpack and pg_catalog
Date: 2006-10-21 04:01:46
Message-ID: 200610210001.47121.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
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On Friday 20 October 2006 21:03, Neil Conway wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 22:59 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Nothing except initdb should add objects in pg_catalog. AFAICS,
> > adminpack doesn't have any special requirements, so it should behave
> > like all other contrib modules.
>
> Okay. Are there any opinions on whether we should make this change to
> contrib/adminpack now (i.e. during the 8.2 beta), later (for 8.3), or
> not all at?
>

Not saying we should or shouldn't, but if we are going to do it, istm we ought
to do it now while we are still in beta. Is there a backwards compatability
issue for older systems? (Not that this doesn't get worse if we release yet
another release with it)

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Robert Treat
Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

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