On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 5:29 PM, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: > * Robert Haas (robertmh...@gmail.com) wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 8:54 PM, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: >> > Note that these views have not been consistently maintained and have >> > ended up including some role attributes from recent versions >> >> That's not a bug. According to the documentation, these views exist >> for compatibility with PostgreSQL versions before 8.1, so there's no >> need to update them with newer fields. Clients who are expecting to >> talk with a pre-8.1 PostgreSQL won't expect those fields to be present >> anyway. > > Yet we added bypassrls to them, after a similar discussion of how > they're for backwards compat and we can't get rid of them, but we should > update them with new things, blah, blah.
My recollection of that conversation is a little fuzzy and I can't immediately find the email in the archives, but I don't think I argued for that; I think I may have argued against it; I don't think that I understood the point of it then and I don't now. In short, if you're feeling under some kind of obligation to update those views, don't feel obliged on my account. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: 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
