On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 11:33:22AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> writes: > > On 2024-Dec-05, Kirill Reshke wrote: > >> I see no open items in this thread. Are there any issues about v1? > > > Should we leave TupleDescInitEntry()'s API alone, to avoid breaking the > > compilation of every extension in the world? > > I fear the howls of pain from extension authors will be entirely > drowned out by the howls of pain from application authors whose > queries are broken by the disappearance of two catalog columns. > A quick search at codesearch.debian.net shows that while there's > not that many references to attndims, some of them are in such > never-heard-of-it applications as PHP. typndims has some outside > queries fetching it as well. > > I don't think we can do this as presented. Maybe we could do > something like constrain the stored value to be only 0 or 1, > but how much does that improve matters?
Well, then the question becomes will we retain useless system columns forever? -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com Do not let urgent matters crowd out time for investment in the future.
