Re: Views, views, views! (long)

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 02:43:19AM -0000, Andrew - Supernews wrote:
> On 2005-05-06, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
> >> Hmmm ... we argued about this. I was in favor of hiding the OIDs
> >> because OIDs are not consistent after a database reload and names are.
> >> I can see your point though; what do other people think?
> >
> > Well phpPgAdmin is unable to use the pg_tables view, for instance,
> > because we have no way of getting the table comment using the
> > information in that view...
>
> If you look at the columns lists, you'll find that oids are exposed in
> a number of places. In general, I didn't make a point of exposing them
> everywhere, but I _did_ expose them in cases where I thought it likely
> that querying by or for the oid in particular might be needed. (OIDs
> are, after all, exposed quite a bit by the wire protocol and by libpq.)
>
> Whether the balance is correct here is something I'm open to suggestions
> about.

Perhaps it makes sense to expose the OIDs of each object in it's view.
IE: pg_tables would have table_oid, pg_types would have type_oid, etc.
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