Peter Eisentraut wrote: > With the new dependency system we have the entire system catalog content > pinned down and unchangeable. This is a tiny dent in the nice extensible > nature of the system. > > Would it be feasible to identify the non-essential parts of the built-in > objects (say, inet type, numeric type, associated functions, etc.) and > declare those with regular SQL commands in initdb? In the end, the system > catalog contents in include/catalog/ would only contain the "bootstrap" > content. For example, the pg_proc content could be made more manageable > that way. > > Not sure if this is worth considering for this release, but it might be a > medium-term project.
Uh, some tools rely on those oids being fixed values, don't they? For example, I see ecpg using NUMERICOID. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
