Re: Views, views, views! (long) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Hannu Krosing
Subject Re: Views, views, views! (long)
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Msg-id 1115336265.5496.100.camel@fuji.krosing.net
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In response to Re: Views, views, views! (long)  ("Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com>)
Responses Re: Views, views, views! (long)  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
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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.

-- 
Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>


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