Re: Should next release by 8.0 (Was: Re: [GENERAL] I am

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net>, Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Should next release by 8.0 (Was: Re: [GENERAL] I am
Date: 2002-07-05 14:27:16
Message-ID: 20020705112429.Q22387-100000@mail1.hub.org
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On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> > Actually, the "big" change is such that will, at least as far as I'm
> > understanding it, break pretty much every front-end applicaiton ...
>
> Only those that inspect system catalogs --- I'm not sure what percentage
> that is, but surely it's not "pretty much every" one. psql for example
> is only affected because of its \d commands.

Okay, anyone have any ideas of other packages that would inspect the
system catalog? The only ones I could think of, off the top of my head,
would be pgAccess, pgAdmin and phpPgAdmin ... but I would guess that any
'administratively oriented' interface would face similar problems, no?

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