Re: Open 7.3 items

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Neil Conway <nconway(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Open 7.3 items
Date: 2002-08-01 20:06:42
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0208011924340.6899-100000@localhost.localdomain
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Tom Lane writes:

> We've had several proposals in this thread for complicated extensions
> to the user naming mechanism. I think that's overdesigning the feature,
> because we have *no* examples of real-world need for such things except
> for Marc's situation. Let's keep it simple until we see real use cases
> that can drive the design of something fancy.

I don't buy this argument. The reason we have no examples is that people
are happily using the feature and don't have any reason to tell the world
about it.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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