On Jul 13, 2011, at 12:38 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Well, that assumes people read the documention and don't just do \d.
>> Keeping cruft around over time makes the system more complex.
>
> This seems a case where column synonyms would have been useful (as was
> the procpid / pid change).
Well it couldn't just be that, because the data type has changed, too. Unless you could make a kind of "view column" or something where the expression was `relpersistence <> 't'`.
Best,
David