Re: [HACKERS] Well, then you keep your darn columns

> > Can you
> > imagine having all those user apps tha query pg_attribute supress that
> > column.  Sound like too much work to me.
> 
> To me it sounds like a thing that _must_ be done at major number change, 
> so 7.0 is a good place.
> 
> OTOH, we could provide SQL92 ways for getting the info that current user 
> apps get by querying pg_attribute.
> 
> IIRC it requires a bunch of views on system tables, some of which could be 
> lifted straight from psql's \d* commands.

If this is going to require any significant backend baggage, I say drop
it.  Things are complicated enough.  I did temp tables in one file so we
would not have "I am a temp" and "I am not a temp" floating all over the
backend.  I don't really want "I am not an attribute" around either.

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