> My take on this is that it's a LOT easier for people who don't know the
> internals of the PG catalogs to be able to query the information schema,
> as in the information schema things are generally explicitly named.
>
> Much easier for non-experts, which most people don't want to have to
> invest the time in becoming.
Anyone who's writing queries that are examing the schema of the database
is by definition not a newbie...
Chris