Re: Accessing schema data in information schema
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Date: 2006-03-23T02:38:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com> writes: > On Wednesday 22 March 2006 13:11, Tom Lane wrote: >> (Thinks a bit...) Maybe it would work for pg_sequence to be a real >> catalog with a row per sequence, and we also create a view named after >> the sequence that simply selects from pg_sequence with an appropriate >> WHERE condition. > I'd think that would be a workable solution, with documentation notes that > this will be deprecated in favor of information_schema in an upcoming > release ? Yeah, we could consider the views a transitional thing, and get rid of them after a release or two. Tell people to change over to either look in the pg_sequence catalog, or use the information_schema view. Does that view expose everything that there is, though, or will we have proprietary extensions that are not in SQL2003? regards, tom lane