Re: TODO: Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), pg_get_attrdef(),

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: TODO: Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), pg_get_attrdef(),
Date: 2006-06-12 03:25:03
Message-ID: 448CDE8F.1070507@commandprompt.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> Trying to get back on point. What is the scope of work for the TODO
>> item? Forget everything else I brought up. What is the goal of the
>> existing TODO?
>
> I'm not sure that the TODO item has a reason to live at all, but surely
> the first item of work for it should be to figure out what its use-case
> is. If pg_dump isn't going to use these functions, what will?

Well I can't think of a reason to use the functions as a way to deliver
CREATE statements.

Anyone else have thoughts?

Joshua D. Drake

>
> regards, tom lane
>

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