Re: Prepping to break every past release...

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Something that continues to grind my teeth about our software is that we
> are horribly inconsistent with our system catalogs. Now I am fully and
> 100% aware that changing this will break things in user land but I want
> to do it anyway. In order to do that I believe we need to come up with a
> very loud, extremely verbose method of communicating to people that 8.5
> *will* break things. 
> 
> It seems to me that the best method would be to follow the
> information_schema naming conventions as information_schema is standard
> compliant (right?).

Well, honestly, this was one of the reasons why AndrewSN, David and I 
pushed NewSysViews.  Non-hackers really shouldn't be accessing the 
system catalogs directly, and if information_schema doesn't give them 
enough data, we should start adding new views to I_S.

--Josh