Re: Accessing schema data in information schema

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Accessing schema data in information schema
Date: 2006-03-23 18:03:06
Message-ID: 4422E2DA.6020908@dunslane.net
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Tom Lane wrote:

>Given the thought that we need both
>transactional and nontransactional state for a sequence, I'm kind of
>inclined to leave the transactional data in pg_class. We could still
>imagine putting the nontransactional state into a new pg_sequence
>catalog indexed by, say, the pg_class OID of the sequences. OTOH I'm
>not sure how much that buys for Peter's problem --- it might be better
>for him just to invent some functions that can grab the required data
>given the sequence OID.
>
>
>

Yes, this seems a lot of lifting for a fairly small need. If there
aren't other advantages, a simple function or two seems a better way to
go, and then there are no legacy problems.

cheers

andrew

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