Re: Unused system table columns

On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 11:44, Tom Lane wrote:
> Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> writes:
> > The interim solution would be to set typreceive/typsend to NULL if they
> > are the same as typinput/typoutput in CREATE TYPE.
>
> Which still puts you right back at square one. You might as well define
> two new columns that will carry the function names for binary transport.

Ok, but could this be then rename instead of removing the columns - it
will be roughly the same amount of work going through all the places
that touch pg_type. I'd even guess that renaming is _less_ work..

> typsend/typreceive are hopelessly contaminated at this point, IMHO;
> it'll be less work and less confusion to adopt other column names than
> to try to reuse them just "because they're there".

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Hannu