On 17 October 2011 03:04, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Josh Kupershmidt <schmi...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>>> On the third hand, Josh's previous batch of changes to clean up >>>> psql's behavior in this area are clearly a huge improvement: you can >>>> now display the comment for nearly anything by running the appropriate >>>> \d<foo> command for whatever the object type is. So ... is this still >>>> a good idea, or should we just forget about it? >>> >>> I think this question is a part of a broader concern, namely do we >>> want to create and support system views for easier access to >>> information which is already available in different ways through psql >>> commands, or by manually digging around in the catalogs? I believe >>> there are at least several examples of existing views we maintain >>> which are very similar to pg_comments: pg_seclabel seems quite >>> similar, for instance. >> >> That's one's a direct analogue, but I don't want to overbroaden the >> issue. I guess it just seems to me that if no one's going to champion >> adding this, maybe we shouldn't. > > Hearing no cries of "oh, yes, please", I'm marking this Returned with > Feedback for now. We can always revisit it if we hear that more > people want it.
Why is this marked as done on with Wiki's todo list? -- Thom Brown Twitter: @darkixion IRC (freenode): dark_ixion Registered Linux user: #516935 EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
