On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 21:24, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > There is always the biggest evil of all... Putting SHOW / DESCRIBE /
> > HELP commands into the backend itself. I'm sure the pgAdmin group likes
> > that idea (they're probably tired of maintaining 4 different versions of
> > queries for getting a list of tables). Any solution to make psql
> > backward or forward compatible should go an additional step to assist
> > other frontends as well.
>
> All that means for phpPgAdmin and pgAdmin is that we'll have to support
> 5 different queries :P
Yes, but I would hope it stops at 5, and over the next 3 years you don't
have 10 different query forms.
> We could use information_schema...
Nay... I would expect a PostgreSQL specific information_schema to get
just as much mucking around as the system tables, which means you are
still maintaining a set of queries per release.