Re: Views, views, views! (long)

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: Views, views, views! (long)
Date: 2005-05-10 04:59:51
Message-ID: 200505092159.52536.josh@agliodbs.com
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Robert,

> As Jim points out, their current long term goal is to be a replacement for
> the current system views (hence *new* system views), and the current
> project was created to facilitate development.  What I am thinking is that
> the project take on a different goal, mainly that it be an add on that
> intends to work along side the current system views and be both backward
> and forward compatible (hence *enhanced* system views).  It's a subtle
> difference.

*what* current system views? We appear to have 8 of them. 2 we're not
touching at this time. The other 6 are all deficient in various ways, and
those ways are not fixable in a backwards-compatible fashion.

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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