Re: Additional role attributes && superuser review

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Adam Brightwell <adam(dot)brightwell(at)crunchydatasolutions(dot)com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Additional role attributes && superuser review
Date: 2014-11-18 22:16:01
Message-ID: 23374.1416348961@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Adam Brightwell <adam(dot)brightwell(at)crunchydatasolutions(dot)com> writes:
> Currently, I am using int32 simply because int64 is causing some issues.
> The issue is that genbki.pl is not able to associate it with the int8 type
> as defined in pg_type.h. Therefore Schema_pg_authid in schemapg.h isn't
> defined correctly. I've been digging and scratching my head on this one
> but I have reached a point where I think it would be better just to ask.

> Any thoughts or recommendations on how I should approach this?

Teach src/backend/catalog/Catalog.pm about it.

There once was a policy against using int64 in the system catalogs, which
is why it wasn't there already; but the reason for that policy is long
gone.

regards, tom lane

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