> FWIW, I don't see the issue as "internal vs external" at all. What's > bothering me is whether these views can be considered sufficiently > more stable and better designed than the physical system catalogs > to justify recommending that application designers should rely on > the views instead of the catalogs. That point doesn't seem to me > to have been proven. The recent arguments in favor seem to boil down to > "novices will find these easier to use", which is very possibly true, > but novices don't have the same needs as programs.
Argument 2: they can be dropped or modified. A few weeks ago I was complaining about non-priv users being able to see all my source code in pg_proc. Problem solved. Now I can totally shut down pgAdmin for a class of users if I desire (and I do). Argument 3: backwards compatibility. Do you remember how tablespaces introduction broke pgAdmin? Merlin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
