Re: Views, views, views: Summary of Arguments

On Thursday 12 May 2005 01:32, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > FWIW, I don't see the issue as "internal vs external" at all. What's
> > bothering me is whether these views can be considered sufficiently
> > more stable and better designed than the physical system catalogs
> > to justify recommending that application designers should rely on
> > the views instead of the catalogs. That point doesn't seem to me
> > to have been proven. The recent arguments in favor seem to boil down to
> > "novices will find these easier to use", which is very possibly true,
> > but novices don't have the same needs as programs.
>
> As lead phpPgAdmin developer, I'm officially in favour of them. The
> main reason being all the extra fruit they have that shows database
> size, etc.
>

As non-lead phpPgAdmin developer, I'd be against using them in phppgadmin.
(note this doesnt mean I am against them in pgsql itself)

> That means we can display this meta information in phpPgAdmin and not
> worry about having to re-implement it all.
>

You have to query something... doesn't bother me to go to the source.

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Robert Treat
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