Re: Extending System Views: proposal for 8.1/8.2

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 05:21:32PM -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote:

> Out of curiosity, what's the relation between the tables in pg_catalog
> and the 'actual system objects'? I ass-u-me'd that these tables were the
> backing store for the real information, but maybe that's not the case.

They are.


> I think these views are also very useful in certain programming
> situations, in which also having the OIDs might be very useful. Another
> option would be to have functions that given a array of names would
> return a array of OIDs.

So why not have both in the view?  It's not like you are storing
duplicated data anyway.

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