"Jim C. Nasby" <decibel@decibel.org> writes:
> Aside from that, it's currently rather silly that every admin tool has
> to code up a very complex set of queries to get info from the system
> catalog. It makes much more sense to put that complexity into a set of
> system views that are maintained as part of the backend, instead of
> pushing that effort out to everyone who writes tools.
So instead, they should code up complex queries to get info from the
system views? Your claim only makes sense if you know exactly what
"every admin tool" is going to need, what format they are going to want
it in, and other things that I doubt you are really prescient enough
to get 100% right.
regards, tom lane