Re: Unused system table columns

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Rod Taylor" <rbt(at)zort(dot)ca>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "PostgreSQL Development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Unused system table columns
Date: 2002-07-16 06:18:10
Message-ID: GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOKECNCDAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
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> > I disagree. For one thing, there are clients that look at that column.
> > There's no percentage in breaking them to gain zero (and it will be
> > zero, because of alignment considerations...)
>
> Yes, pgaccess uses it, as I remember. Would be nice if it was accurate.

Not to mention phpPgAdmin, psql, pg_dump, TOra, pgadmin, etc.

Chris

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