From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Tony <tony(at)unihost(dot)net> |
Cc: | Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)myrealbox(dot)com>, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Is my MySQL Gaining ? |
Date: | 2003-12-29 21:00:12 |
Message-ID: | 3FF095DC.9050309@commandprompt.com |
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Tony wrote:
> I already had in the first post I replied to, but at the risk of
> sounding redundant, I'll say it again.
>
> Views: When I came to PG I didn't know what they were, saw no point
> to them (still don't) why do you need a function to provide details of
> a query when a more complicated query gives the same data? Are they
> designed for people who don't like to type long queries?
They are designed for several things IMHO.
1. So I don't have to type long queries.
2. So I can have a base query and just append where clauses, joins
etc... as I need.
3. So I can provide permissions based on the view, not the table itself
-- thus lending to a more flexible acl model.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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