Florian Pflug wrote: > On Oct21, 2011, at 16:42 , Phil Sorber wrote: > > If you did want to make them immutable, I also like Florian's idea of > > a dependency graph. This would make the dumps less readable though. > > Hm, I kinda reversed my opinion on that, though - i.e., I no longer think > that the dependency graph idea has much merit. For two reasons > > First, dependencies work on OIDs, not on names. Thus, for the dependency > machinery to work for GUCs, they'd also need to store OIDs instead of > names of referenced schema objects. (Otherwise you get into trouble if > objects are renamed) > > Which of course doesn't work, at least for roles, because roles are > shared objects, but referenced objects might be database-local. > (search_path, for example).
Is this a TODO? -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
