Re: Removal of deprecated views pg_user, pg_group, pg_shadow

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 5:29 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> * Robert Haas (robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 8:54 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
>> > Note that these views have not been consistently maintained and have
>> > ended up including some role attributes from recent versions
>>
>> That's not a bug. According to the documentation, these views exist
>> for compatibility with PostgreSQL versions before 8.1, so there's no
>> need to update them with newer fields. Clients who are expecting to
>> talk with a pre-8.1 PostgreSQL won't expect those fields to be present
>> anyway.
>
> Yet we added bypassrls to them, after a similar discussion of how
> they're for backwards compat and we can't get rid of them, but we should
> update them with new things, blah, blah.

My recollection of that conversation is a little fuzzy and I can't
immediately find the email in the archives, but I don't think I argued
for that; I think I may have argued against it; I don't think that I
understood the point of it then and I don't now. In short, if you're
feeling under some kind of obligation to update those views, don't
feel obliged on my account.

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