Re: [HACKERS] WITH SYSID dropped

2006-11-06 Thread Dr. Ernst Molitor
Dear Stefan Kaltenbrunner, dear PostgreSQL gurus, current_user returns a "name" (currently, 64 bytes of data); I felt it would be contrary to good database practice to repetitiously include (up to) 64 bytes of data in each and every row of each and every table instead of making use of what r

Re: [HACKERS] WITH SYSID dropped

2006-11-05 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Dr. Ernst Molitor wrote: > Dear PostgreSQL gurus, > > having read through the thread on the topic cited above, I still think > the change - however well-founded it may be - carries a problem: That of > an upgrade on installations that relied on the statement. > > Currently, I'm preparing to switc

[HACKERS] WITH SYSID dropped

2006-11-05 Thread Dr. Ernst Molitor
Dear PostgreSQL gurus, having read through the thread on the topic cited above, I still think the change - however well-founded it may be - carries a problem: That of an upgrade on installations that relied on the statement. Currently, I'm preparing to switch a PostgreSQL-8.0.3-installation to