Re: adminpack and pg_catalog

Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
> 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?

AFAIR the point of adminpack was to support pgAdmin, which expects those
functions to be in pg_catalog. At some point we might as well just take
it out instead of whack it until it meets some arbitrary restrictions
and isn't at all backwards-compatible anymore.

(No, I don't find these arguments that it mustn't put anything in
pg_catalog to be very compelling ... if we seriously believed that,
we'd have arranged for the system to enforce it.)

regards, tom lane