Re: Eliminate information_schema from oid2name listing

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Kenji Sugita <sugita(at)srapc1327(dot)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Eliminate information_schema from oid2name listing
Date: 2003-07-27 04:44:34
Message-ID: 200307270444.h6R4iYB06465@candle.pha.pa.us
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Patch attached and applied.

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > Kenji Sugita writes:
> >> This small patch eliminates relations in information_schema from oid2name
> >> listing.
>
> > Why would one want to do that?
>
> AFAICS the point of oid2name is to provide a mapping between disk file
> names and table names. As such, what it *ought* to be doing is
> suppressing views, since those don't have disk files --- they are only
> cluttering the listing with irrelevant data. If we put that in, there'd
> be no need to special-case information_schema.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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