Re: Should next release by 8.0 (Was: Re: [GENERAL] I am

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> > > Actually, the "big" change is such that will, at least as far as I'm
> > > understanding it, break pretty much every front-end applicaiton ...
> >
> > Only those that inspect system catalogs --- I'm not sure what percentage
> > that is, but surely it's not "pretty much every" one. psql for example
> > is only affected because of its \d commands.
>
> Okay, anyone have any ideas of other packages that would inspect the
> system catalog? The only ones I could think of, off the top of my head,
> would be pgAccess, pgAdmin and phpPgAdmin ... but I would guess that any
> 'administratively oriented' interface would face similar problems, no?

That's a good point. Only the admin stuff is affected, not all
applications. All applications _can_ now use schemas, but for most
cases applications remain working unchanged.

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