On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 21:27 +0000, Dave Page wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>
> > It is not easy to say. It is correct to say. I am under no illusion that
> > this will not be painful. As far as "man weeks of recoding". Sorry, I
> > know that will be tough.
>
> It'll be a complete and utter waste of time, and make a horrible mess
> of any client code that has to support multiple versions.
No actually it won't. It will make it easier for every product that uses
8.5 and above. Sometimes you have to cut the cord.
> > Any DBA worth his salt uses system catalogs. Lowering the barrier on
> > uses these catalogs will lead to better and more useful tools as well.
>
> Then psql and pgAdmin aren't doing their jobs properly. Tell us what you need.
>
That is an interesting argument but honestly off topic for this thread
because that would be a series of new views and functions etc...
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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