On Aug 23, 2011, at 1:57 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> Ultimately my ulterior motive is to make sure the information schema >> is actually useful and ensure that it maintains that status. > > The information schema only exposes privileges defined in the SQL > standard on objects defined in the SQL standard. So psql or any tool > that wants to provide information on PostgreSQL-specific features can't > use that. But perhaps the JDBC interfaces only expose certain standard > information anyway, so it could be useful. Depends on the details, > though.
Related to this is the newsysviews project, which was intended to present more human-friendly info ala info_schema, but to also provide PostgreSQL-specific information (which info_schema can't). -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect j...@nasby.net 512.569.9461 (cell) http://jim.nasby.net -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
