Re: Views, views, views! (long)

On Thursday 05 May 2005 19:37, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> On N, 2005-05-05 at 22:43 +0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> > > The purpose of the new system views...
> >
> > As long as they are in a separate schema (like information_schema,
> > but hopefully not as long). pg_views? pg_info? information_skema? :)
> >
> > > But if you think that nobody needs these views, it's because you
> > > haven't had much contact with end users lately.
> >
> > Well, who really *does* need these? After all, end users should be
> > using an interface of some sort. (DBD::Pg, phpPgAdmin, psql, etc).
>
> Perhaps they can be thouhgt of as another "interface of some sort" ;)
>
> They may be even not installed by default, but bundled and as easy to
> install as any (other) contrib module.

I was starting to think this... like this should be a project on foundry
called "enhanced system views" that would be fairly database version
independant and people could install into any databases they needed them in.

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Robert Treat
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