On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Simone Aiken <sai...@quietlycompetent.com> wrote: > Pages like this one have column comments for the system tables: > > http://www.psql.it/manuale/8.3/catalog-pg-attribute.html
Oh, I see. I don't think we want to go there. We'd need some kind of system for keeping the two places in sync. And there'd be no easy way to upgrade the in-database descriptions when we upgraded to a newer minor release, supposing they'd changed in the meantime. And some of the descriptions are quite long, so they wouldn't fit nicely in the amount of space you typically have available when you run \d+. And it would enlarge the size of an empty database by however much was required to store all those comments, which could be an issue for PostgreSQL instances that have many small databases. -- 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
