On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 21:24, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > There is always the biggest evil of all... Putting SHOW / DESCRIBE / > > HELP commands into the backend itself. I'm sure the pgAdmin group likes > > that idea (they're probably tired of maintaining 4 different versions of > > queries for getting a list of tables). Any solution to make psql > > backward or forward compatible should go an additional step to assist > > other frontends as well. > > All that means for phpPgAdmin and pgAdmin is that we'll have to support > 5 different queries :P
Yes, but I would hope it stops at 5, and over the next 3 years you don't have 10 different query forms. > We could use information_schema... Nay... I would expect a PostgreSQL specific information_schema to get just as much mucking around as the system tables, which means you are still maintaining a set of queries per release.
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