Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> At one time I was hoping to get rid of explicit entries in pg_attribute >> for system columns, which would negate this concern. I think we're >> stuck with them now, though, because of per-column permissions.
> Because someone might want to grant per-column permissions on those > columns? That seems like an awfully thin reason to keep all that > bloat around. I bet the number of people who have granted per-column > permissions on, say, cmax can be counted on one hand - possibly with > five fingers left over. I'd agree with that argument for the most part, but I'm not entirely sure about oid, which has some characteristics of a user-data column. (OTOH, maybe we could allow just oid to retain an explicit pg_attribute entry... could be messy though.) regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers