Re: missing schema qualifications in psql

From: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: missing schema qualifications in psql
Date: 2010-04-01 13:43:15
Message-ID: 2d674ff92ac8a8ab6cc21e835fe0095c@biglumber.com
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> While psql is careful to schema-qualify all references to built-in
> objects (pg_catalog.*), it completely neglects to do this for built-in
> operators, which can lead to surprising misbehaviors when users have
> created custom operators. Here is a patch to address that. It will
> need a bit of testing.

Er...wouldn't this only be a problem if someone creates custom operators
*and* forces pg_catalog to the end of the search_path? Wouldn't an easier
solution be to prepend pg_catalog to the search_path when doing backslash
commands?

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