Re: Do we want SYNONYMS?

On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 08:31 -0500, Vick Khera wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> > Command Prompt is currently considering writing a patch to provide
> > synonyms to PostgreSQL. Is this something the community is interested
> > in? Do we have use cases for it? MSSQL, DB2 and Oracle support them.
> >
>
> I must be missing something, but really, what's the point of synonyms?
> What's the real-world use case for them?

For a PostgreSQL Person? I see no real benefit to be honest. For people
coming from Oracle, DB2 or MSSQL? I see a real benefit in terms of ease
of porting.

I asked on the Oracle free list[1] and Synonyms are used and used a lot
in Oracle. Anything we can do to help those folks run screaming from
err.... port to PostgreSQL seems like a good idea. (Assuming we can do
it reasonably)

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

1. http://www.freelists.org/post/oracle-l/Synonyms

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