| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Joel Jacobson <joel(at)gluefinance(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>, Herrera Alvaro <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Bug in pg_describe_object, patch v2 |
| Date: | 2011-01-17 20:46:21 |
| Message-ID: | 20482.1295297181@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Joel Jacobson <joel(at)gluefinance(dot)com> writes:
> a) pg_describe_object should always include the schema in the name,
> even for object in public and pg_catalog.
I knew you were going to demand that next, as soon as you figured out
that it was an obstacle for using pg_describe_object output as a
globally unique identifier. But I'm going to reply, once again, that
pg_describe_object is not meant to guarantee that and we're not going to
make it so.
regards, tom lane
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