On 14 November 2011 13:07, Thom Brown <t...@linux.com> wrote: > 2011/11/14 Shigeru Hanada <shigeru.han...@gmail.com> >> >> (2011/11/14 11:25), Robert Haas wrote: >> > My vote is to nuke 'em all. :-) >> >> +1. >> >> IIRC, main purpose of supporting tableoid for foreign tables was to be >> basis of foreign table inheritance, which was not included in 9.1, and >> we have not supported it yet. Other system columns are essentially >> garbage, but they survived at 9.1 development because (maybe) it seemed >> little odd to have system columns partially at that time. >> >> So, IMHO removing all system columns from foreign tables seems >> reasonable, unless it doesn't break any external tool seriously (Perhaps >> there would be few tools which assume that foreign tables have system >> columns). >> >> If there seems to be a consensus on removing system column from foreign >> tables, I'd like to work on this issue. Attached is a halfway patch, >> and ISTM there is no problem so far. > > > I can say that at least PgAdmin doesn't use these columns.
So we still have all of these columns for foreign tables. I've tested Hanada-san's patch and it removes all of the system columns. Could we consider applying it, or has a use-case for them since been discovered? -- Thom -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
