Re: A post-7.1 wish-list. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Emmanuel Charpentier
Subject Re: A post-7.1 wish-list.
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Msg-id 3A58EB3F.63EBA698@bacbuc.dydndns.org
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In response to Re: A post-7.1 wish-list.  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses RE: A post-7.1 wish-list.  ("Andrew Snow" <als@fl.net.au>)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 
> Emmanuel Charpentier writes:
> 
> > 1) Updatable views.
> 
> You can make rules updateable by attaching appropriate rules to them.
> The transparent implementation of updateable views would essentially do
> that.  It's a planned feature but I don't know of anyone who has made it
> his priority.

I'd try my hand at it, given enough time ... which I'm awfully short on.
Which is one of my reasons to have that feature : not having to do grunt
work.

> > 2) External database or table access.
> 
> Accessing more than one database from a connection will not happen, at
> least as long has the current mindset of the developers persists.  SQL
> schema support is planned for 7.2, which will address the same area,
> however.

I fail to see how schema support would help me accessing data residing
on different servers (that cannot be moved, for a lot of good and bad
reasons). Could you please amplify ?

--
Emmanuel Charpentier


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