On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 6:24 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
>
> I just noticed that this (commit 5a2832465fd8) added a separate catalog
> to store schemas which are part of a publication, side-by-side with the
> catalog to store relations which are part of a publication. This seems
> a strange way to represent publication membership: in order to find out
> what objects are members of a publication, you have to scan both
> pg_publication_rel and pg_publication_namespace. Wouldn't it make more
> sense to have a single catalog for both things, maybe something like
>
> pg_publication_object
> oid OID -- unique key (for pg_depend)
> prpubid OID -- of pg_publication
> prrelid OID -- OID of relation, or 0 if not a relation
> prnspid OID -- OID of namespace, or 0 if not a namespace
>
> which seems more natural to me, and pollutes the system less with weird
> syscaches, etc.
>
> What do you think?
I felt the existing tables are better normalized than the proposed one.
Regards,
Vignesh