> > Now, not only can we emulate "show tables", but people can easily
> > add application-specific "show whatever" commands, which seems
> > tremendously cool.
>
> We already have that. They're called views.
Um, I'm interested in aiding in the conversion of users from MySQL to
PostgreSQL (how ever it happens, I don't really care). Tom and Rod
are interested in an extensible/programmable SHOW syntax (very cool
and much more interesting than the hack I put together). Views solve
none of the above problems. -sc
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Sean Chittenden
