Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Something that continues to grind my teeth about our software is that we
> are horribly inconsistent with our system catalogs. Now I am fully and
> 100% aware that changing this will break things in user land but I want
> to do it anyway. In order to do that I believe we need to come up with a
> very loud, extremely verbose method of communicating to people that 8.5
> *will* break things.
>
> It seems to me that the best method would be to follow the
> information_schema naming conventions as information_schema is standard
> compliant (right?).
Well, honestly, this was one of the reasons why AndrewSN, David and I
pushed NewSysViews. Non-hackers really shouldn't be accessing the
system catalogs directly, and if information_schema doesn't give them
enough data, we should start adding new views to I_S.
--Josh