On 2021-01-18 18:23, Tom Lane wrote:
> The reason I got interested in this right now is the nearby
> discussion [1] about why findoidjoins misses some catalog
> relationships and whether we should fix that and/or make its results
> more readily accessible. I'd thought perhaps FK constraint entries
> could supersede the need for that tool altogether, but now it seems
> like not.
Yes, catalog consistency checking was also something I had in mind.
There are clearly a number of complications still to resolve. But in
general the idea of representing relationships between tables in the
DDL/schema sounds like a sensible idea.
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