Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes: > As stated above, these system views, once incorporated into a pg > distribution, are likely to be with us *forever*.
I dislike to burst your bubble, but this claim is ridiculous on its face. We don't whack the system catalogs around from release to release just because we'd like to break as many user applications as possible ... quite the contrary. When we change the catalogs it's because there is some fairly fundamental change in functionality involved. I think the idea that some views in front of the catalogs can hide this problem is the merest pipe dream. To put it more bluntly: exactly what are you accomplishing here that isn't already accomplished, in a *truly* standard fashion, by the INFORMATION_SCHEMA? Why do we need yet another nonstandard view on the underlying reality? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]