Re: Everything is now "required by the database system"

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> With the new dependency system we have the entire system catalog content
> pinned down and unchangeable. This is a tiny dent in the nice extensible
> nature of the system.
>
> Would it be feasible to identify the non-essential parts of the built-in
> objects (say, inet type, numeric type, associated functions, etc.) and
> declare those with regular SQL commands in initdb? In the end, the system
> catalog contents in include/catalog/ would only contain the "bootstrap"
> content. For example, the pg_proc content could be made more manageable
> that way.
>
> Not sure if this is worth considering for this release, but it might be a
> medium-term project.

Uh, some tools rely on those oids being fixed values, don't they? For
example, I see ecpg using NUMERICOID.

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