Re: missing schema qualifications in psql

Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com>

From: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-04-01T13:43:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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> While psql is careful to schema-qualify all references to built-in
> objects (pg_catalog.*), it completely neglects to do this for built-in
> operators, which can lead to surprising misbehaviors when users have
> created custom operators.  Here is a patch to address that.  It will
> need a bit of testing.

Er...wouldn't this only be a problem if someone creates custom operators 
*and* forces pg_catalog to the end of the search_path? Wouldn't an easier 
solution be to prepend pg_catalog to the search_path when doing backslash 
commands?

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