Re: Indication of db-shared tables

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Greg Sabino Mullane's message of mié jun 22 03:24:34 UTC 2011:
> > 
> > Hash: RIPEMD160
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> > > Do we do enough to show which tables are db shared, e.g. pg_database?  I
> > > don't see any indication from psql \dS.  Are our docs clear enough?
> > 
> > I don't think \dS should be indicating such a thing. I think it's documented 
> > well enough: if you are doing something that it matters enough which 
> > tables are shared, you really oughtta know about them anyway.
> 
> Yeah.  The user can't create new ones either, so why would it matter?

I assumed it was important to indicate if someone was looking at
per-database or per-cluster data, like pg_tablespace.  The issue comes
up when I do admin training about the system tables.

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