Re: Schema bug

From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
To: "Florian G(dot) Pflug" <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>
Cc: pgadmin-hackers <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Schema bug
Date: 2005-12-08 15:46:49
Message-ID: 43985569.6080405@pse-consulting.de
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Florian G. Pflug wrote:
> Andreas Pflug wrote:
>
>> Guillaume LELARGE wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I found a weird bug today. If you rename the public schema, it
>>> becomes unavailable. Here is a patch to fix it. It modifies the query
>>> to use the oid instead of the schema's name. Works great on Linux,
>>> should'nt be a problem on win32.
>>
>>
>> Actually, to me renaming the public schema appears as the primary bug...
>> There are many ways to corrupt pgAdmin's behaviour, and you found one
>> of 'em. Renaming public is so irregular, I doubt it's worth changing
>> the behaviour.
>
>
> This argument scares me... I believe a GUI-Tool shouldn't impose any
> additional restrictions to what you can do with your database -
> otherwise GUI-Users become second-class citzicens when compared to those
> who use the commandline/psql. Why exactly does pgadmin depend on
> the existance of the public schema?

It does *not* depend on its existence.

Regards,
Andreas

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