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Re: Views, views, views! (long)

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>

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From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: josh@agliodbs.com
Cc: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2005-05-06T02:02:22Z
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> Hmmm ... we argued about this.  I was in favor of hiding the OIDs because OIDs 
> are not consistent after a database reload and names are.      I can see your 
> point though; what do other people think?

Well phpPgAdmin is unable to use the pg_tables view, for instance, 
because we have no way of getting the table comment using the 
information in that view...

Chris