[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Below were the communications between Tom and me before I implemented this > project. I just did what he asked me to do.
Part of it, maybe --- my point was that without any support in (at least) plpgsql, the feature is of only academic interest. There's not a lot of point in applying the patch when it does not do anything. Also, we tend to look with suspicion on such stuff because once you actually write code that uses the feature, you often find that you should have designed it a little differently. Nailing down the catalog representation in advance of having working code that does something useful with it is a good recipe for making mistakes. (To take one example, why does the patch only support one name? Don't you need two for the UPDATE case?) In any case the patch is missing documentation and pg_dump support, making it even less possible to use it for anything. It's project policy that all system catalog columns be documented in catalogs.sgml, and what's the use of DDL that won't survive a dump and reload? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(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