On Thursday 12 May 2005 01:32, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > 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. > > As lead phpPgAdmin developer, I'm officially in favour of them. The > main reason being all the extra fruit they have that shows database > size, etc. >
As non-lead phpPgAdmin developer, I'd be against using them in phppgadmin. (note this doesnt mean I am against them in pgsql itself) > That means we can display this meta information in phpPgAdmin and not > worry about having to re-implement it all. > You have to query something... doesn't bother me to go to the source. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match