> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > > That was me. The point, however, was, given object id 145928, how the
> > > heck to you know what table this comes from?
> >
> > I think we will need the relid of the system table. I imagine four
> > columns:
> >
> > object relid
> > object oid
> > reference relid
> > references oid
>
> I'm not seeing the point. You're essentially duplicating the information
> that's already available in the system catalogs. This is bound to become
> a catastrophe the minute a user steps in and does manual surgery on some
> catalog. (And yes, manual surgery should still be possible.)
But how then do you find the system table that uses the given oid?
Wasn't that your valid complaint?
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