Re: Alias for tables/columns? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From A. Kretschmer
Subject Re: Alias for tables/columns?
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Msg-id 20061106112458.GG8229@a-kretschmer.de
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In response to Alias for tables/columns?  (Sandro Dentella <sandro@e-den.it>)
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am  Mon, dem 06.11.2006, um 12:16:08 +0100 mailte Sandro Dentella folgendes:
> > >    Is there any possibility to call a table or a column with different names
> > >    -sort of a symbolic link?
> >
> > Yes, you can create VIEWS.
>
> I think I cannot UPDATE or INSERT into a view, is that correct? I think I

Right, but you can create RULEs on this VIEW to do INSERTS and so on...
This works.


> read that 8.2 will make it possibible, is that correct?

IIRC no, because the patch from Bernd 'psoo' Helmle was rejected...
Wait for 8.3 ...


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