Greetings, * Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: > Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> writes: > > Having our test framework deny us useful features just strikes me as > > bizarre. > > This is presuming that it's useful, which is debatable IMO. > I think most people will find it useless noise almost all of the time.
Alright, maybe I'm not the best representation of our user base, but I sure type 'select oid,* from pg_class where relname = ...' with some regularity, mostly to get the oid to then go do something else. Having the relfilenode would be nice too, now that I think about it, and reltuples. There's ways to get *nearly* everything that's in pg_class and friends out of various \d incantations, but not quite everything, which seems unfortunate. In any case, I can understand an argument that the code it requires is too much to maintain for a relatively minor feature (though it hardly seems like it would be...) or that it would be confusing or unhelpful to users (aka "noise") much of the time, so I'll leave it to others to comment on if they think any of these ideas be a useful addition or not. I just don't think we should be voting down a feature because it'd take a bit of extra effort to make our regression tests work with it, which is all I was intending to get at here. Thanks! Stephen
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