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

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Views, views, views! (long)
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Msg-id 200505101312.32791.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: Views, views, views! (long)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom,

> I think the real problem here is that it's hard to be all things to all
> people.  If you suppress display of certain objects, that may be nice
> suppression of clutter for one user, yet render the view useless from
> the perspective of another user --- or even the same user on a different
> day, when he is looking for a particular built-in function for instance.
> (I know it's always bugged the heck out of me that \df editorializes on
> which functions it thinks I want to see.)

But all of the views we've composed as pg_user_* also have a pg_all_*.  So 
users can do what they want.

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco


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