On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 08:36, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > The system catalog columns pg_attrdef.adsrc and pg_constraint.consrc store > "human-readable" versions of pg_attrdef.adbin and pg_constraint.conbin. > During a rename operation, they are not and cannot be updated. We need to > remove them and make interested applications get the information about of > the *bin columns. I noticed that various functions were recently updated > to do that, but I think the columns should be removed altogether because > they cannot be trusted.
Agreed (even brought it up at the time), but there are some circumstances that may cause the binary column to be irretrievable due to a corrupt system catalogue -- which is still possible despite dependencies (concurrency issues -- lack of object locking). -- Rod Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc
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