Re: pg_depend

Bruce Momjian writes:

> > That was me.  The point, however, was, given object id 145928, how the
> > heck to you know what table this comes from?
>
> I think we will need the relid of the system table.  I imagine four
> columns:
>
>     object relid
>     object oid
>     reference relid
>     references oid

I'm not seeing the point.  You're essentially duplicating the information
that's already available in the system catalogs.  This is bound to become
a catastrophe the minute a user steps in and does manual surgery on some
catalog.  (And yes, manual surgery should still be possible.)

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter