| From: | decibel <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Prepping to break every past release... |
| Date: | 2009-03-14 14:07:37 |
| Message-ID: | DA8FADF8-D8D0-440B-8A54-60655E345A22@decibel.org |
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On Mar 4, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Back on that track, I'd like to see a facility whereby we could
>> provide an alias (or synonym, to use a nearby subject) columns and
>> other objects. That would help to overcome naming glitches without
>> breaking things quite so much.
>
> Believe it or not, a large PostgreSQL user in LA just buttonholed
> me about that particular feature idea at SCALE. So it might be
> generally useful as well -- not just for the system catalogs, bug
> to allow businesses with long-use databases to manage change over
> time.
Yes, I think aliasing (especially at the table level) would be handy.
And +1 on reviving newsysviews, but of course I'm biased... ;P
--
Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect decibel(at)decibel(dot)org
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