> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Florian G. Pflug
> Sent: 08 December 2005 15:33
> To: Andreas Pflug; pgadmin-hackers
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Schema bug
>
> Andreas Pflug wrote:
> > Guillaume LELARGE wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I found a weird bug today. If you rename the public
> schema, it becomes
> >> unavailable. Here is a patch to fix it. It modifies the
> query to use
> >> the oid instead of the schema's name. Works great on
> Linux, should'nt
> >> be a problem on win32.
> >
> > Actually, to me renaming the public schema appears as the
> primary bug...
> > There are many ways to corrupt pgAdmin's behaviour, and you
> found one of
> > 'em. Renaming public is so irregular, I doubt it's worth
> changing the
> > behaviour.
>
> This argument scares me... I believe a GUI-Tool shouldn't impose any
> additional restrictions to what you can do with your database -
> otherwise GUI-Users become second-class citzicens when
> compared to those
> who use the commandline/psql. Why exactly does pgadmin depend on
> the existance of the public schema?
The first thing that springs to mind is that we can only tell that it is
*not* a system schema from it's name. The normal test (oid <
LAST_SYSTEM_OID) doesn't work because it's created during (in
template1/template0 at least).
/D
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