Re: question about the design consideration for system catalogs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: question about the design consideration for system catalogs
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Msg-id 8062.1235486566@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to question about the design consideration for system catalogs  ("Tao Ma" <feng_eden@163.com>)
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"Tao Ma" <feng_eden@163.com> writes:
> But if I wanna check the parameter informations, it's a little hard to
> read. If I wanna write a program to re-construct the procedure source
> code, it is not convenience to access the parameter informations from
> the front-end. What cons are there If store the procedure and its
> parameters in different tables(e.g. pg_attribute and pg_attrdef)?

Loss of backwards compatibility, for one thing.  We're not going to
redesign those catalogs just because somebody thinks some other layout
would be more convenient for one purpose --- it would break a lot of
code for little gain.
        regards, tom lane


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