Re: Doc patch to note which system catalogs have oids
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-09-24T03:14:33Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
"Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com> writes: > The attached patch documents the oid column of those > system catalogs having an oid. I think this is fundamentally wrong, or at least misleading, because it documents OID as if it were an ordinary column. Somebody who did "select * from pg_class" and didn't see any "oid" in the result would think the docs were wrong. It's possible that it's worth expending a boilerplate paragraph in each of those pages to say "this catalog has OIDs" (or that it doesn't). But this isn't the way. regards, tom lane