Re: Comments on system tables and columns
Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com>
From: Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com>
To: Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-03-28T14:44:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Em 28-03-2011 08:14, Thom Brown escreveu: > I notice that none of the system tables or columns thereof bear any > comments. Is this intentional, or an oversight? I would have thought > comments would be useful since the column names aren't exactly always > self-explanatory. > It could be useful in some cases. IIRC the comments are not there to avoid bloating the catalog. One month ago or so I saw a commit to comment operator support functions. Maybe it is worth comment system catalog too [1]. [1] http://eulerto.blogspot.com/2010/11/comment-on-catalog-tables.html -- Euler Taveira de Oliveira http://www.timbira.com/