Re: issue about information_schema REFERENTIAL_CONSTRAINTS

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From: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Bugs List <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: issue about information_schema REFERENTIAL_CONSTRAINTS
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 19:53:48 +0200 (CEST)
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> Maybe you shouldn't be using the information_schema in the first place.

Sure, I could write non standard code for every database instead of trying 
to write a portable code which work on all of them directly:-)

I think that trying to do the portable way, under the assumption that the 
standard implementation would be okay, was a reasonnable choice, even if 
proved wrong afterwards.

-- 
Fabien.

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