Re: FDW system columns

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

To: Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>

Cc: Shigeru Hanada <shigeru.hanada@gmail.com>, Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2012-02-27T03:35:23Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> wrote:
>>> If there seems to be a consensus on removing system column from foreign
>>> tables, I'd like to work on this issue.  Attached is a halfway patch,
>>> and ISTM there is no problem so far.
>>
>>
>> I can say that at least PgAdmin doesn't use these columns.
>
> So we still have all of these columns for foreign tables.  I've tested
> Hanada-san's patch and it removes all of the system columns.  Could we
> consider applying it, or has a use-case for them since been
> discovered?

Not to my knowledge, but Hanada-san described his patch as a "halfway
patch", implying that it wasn't done.

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