From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Adam Brightwell <adam.brightwell@crunchydatasolutions.com>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: CATUPDATE confusion?
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2015 09:11:20 -0500
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On 3/7/15 12:31 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> On 12/29/14 7:16 PM, Adam Brightwell wrote:
>>> Given this discussion, I have attached a patch that removes CATUPDATE
>>> for review/discussion.
>
>> committed this version
>
> Hmm .. I'm not sure that summarily removing usecatupd from those three
> system views was well thought out. pg_shadow, especially, has no reason
> to live at all except for backwards compatibility, and clients might well
> expect that column to still be there. I wonder if we'd not be better off
> to keep the column in the views but have it read from rolsuper.
I doubt anyone is reading the column. And if they are, they should stop.
pg_shadow and pg_user have been kept around because it is plausible that
a lot of tools want to have a list of users, and requiring all of them
to change to pg_authid at once was deemed too onerous at the time. I
don't think this requires us to keep all the details the same forever.
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