Re: Dependencies on shared objects

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 04:32:22PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Another question about this: why bother with dependencies on
> tablespaces? That seems to me to be isomorphic with dependencies on
> databases --- we don't need those either, because in both cases we
> count on the filesystem to provide ground truth about which objects
> live inside a database/tablespace.

Because it appeared ugly to me to require information from the
filesystem for something that should be known internally in the
database (system catalogs). No other reason that I remember.

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