Received: from localhost.localdomain (postgresql.org [64.49.215.8]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4B68475B1E for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 07:04:47 -0400 (EDT) Mailbox-Line: From sandro.dentella@tin.it Mon Jul 8 07:04:47 2002 Received: from casa.e-den.it (adsl-51-134.38-151.net24.it [151.38.134.51]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35C64475B2B for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 07:04:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: by casa.e-den.it (Postfix, from userid 500) id 58FFBCF85; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 13:04:47 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 13:04:47 +0200 From: Sandro Dentella To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org Subject: Re: TkSql and pg_group... Message-ID: <20020708110447.GA27041@bluff@e-den.it> Mail-Followup-To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org References: <20020707005657.GA23126@bluff.diade.it> <8861.1026059645@sss.pgh.pa.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8861.1026059645@sss.pgh.pa.us> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.3 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,X_NOT_PRESENT version=2.30 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200207/18 X-Sequence-Number: 2827 On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 12:34:05PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Sandro Dentella writes: > > I'd like to understand how should an editor cope with this case: I'd like > > to make tksql able to edit these tables too, but I see no way to act on a > > record in a unique way. > > You should not be editing system catalogs with INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE > operations in any case. > This was not true till 7.1 before CREATE GROUP command, correct? You're suggesting tksql should set read-only any system catalogs, and let people change them w/ other means? How are system catalogs recognizable (apart from leading pg_ that a user could put to other table names...) TYA sandro *:-) -- Sandro Dentella *:-) e-mail: sandro.dentella@tin.it http://www.tksql.org TkSQL Home page - My GPL work