| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Mark Rae <mrae(at)purplebat(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Database Comments |
| Date: | 2005-10-07 16:18:33 |
| Message-ID: | 5254.1128701913@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Mark Rae <mrae(at)purplebat(dot)com> writes:
> Using COMMENT ON DATABASE only allows you to create a comment
> for your current database which is then only visible from that database.
> ...
> Also is there any intention to have a 'COMMENT ON [ROLE|USER|GROUP]'
> facility.
There's been some discussion of creating a shared catalog for comments
on shared objects, which would let us fix the current bogus behavior
of COMMENT ON DATABASE and add comments on users/etc that weren't
equally bogus. Nobody's stepped up to make it happen though.
regards, tom lane
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