On 2005-05-05, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > This makes sense; I do wish that someone had mentioned it when I originally > raised the subject of new system views. It would have saved us some work.
I'd have raised it myself if I thought there was any mileage in it. As you can probably guess, I don't. information_schema is fine at what it is _intended_ for - as a standardized way of accessing a standard subset of the available metadata. In that sense it is still necessary - however it is not sufficient, and I don't believe that either the raw catalogs nor any reasonable extension of information_schema actually fills that gap. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com - individual and corporate NNTP services ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
