Re: [HACKERS] ALTER OR REPLACE feature - Mailing list pgadmin-hackers

From Hannu Krosing
Subject Re: [HACKERS] ALTER OR REPLACE feature
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Msg-id 3BFCE501.C4B480A3@tm.ee
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In response to ALTER OR REPLACE feature  (Jean-Michel POURE <jm.poure@freesurf.fr>)
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Jean-Michel POURE wrote:
>
> Dear friends
>
> I was surprised to notice that INTERBASE already has more than a dozen
> graphical administration interfaces:
> - http://www.interbase2000.org/tools_dbman.htm,
> - http://delphree.clexpert.com.
>
> In my dreams, I would welcome ALTER OR REPLACE VIEW + ALTER OR REPLACE
> TRIGGER (sorry, this is on my whish list again). Without these two features,
> this is not easily ***possible*** to build a graphical admin & IDE interface
> for PostgreSQL.
>
> KDE3/QT3 makes it possible to build cross-platform database administration
> tools. We don't need a dozen of them, just one good IDE with migration
> features from MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL, Interbase...

Check out TOra - this is currently for Oracle only, but teher is no
inherent
reason why you can't alter it for others.

> The community is waiting for ALTER OR REPLACE, my friends... We also need
> ALTER TABLE DROP FIELD, but this is probably more tricky.
>
> Cheers,
> Jean-Michel POURE
>
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