Re: Accessing schema data in information schema

Tom Lane said:
> 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?
>

What happens to sequence ACLs?

cheers

andrew