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

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: Views, views, views! (long)
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Msg-id 427ADFAD.90405@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Re: Views, views, views! (long)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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>>2.  Almost all of the information that cannot fit will be useful to
>>other database systems as well, and should be suggested to the ANSI/ISO
>>committee.  Since INFORMATION_SCHEMA is a very new idea (only two
>>adopters that I know of so far) I expect it will need to grow and
>>PostgreSQL could be one of the contributors.
> 
> 
> [ raised eyebrow... ]  INFORMATION_SCHEMA is in the SQL92 spec.
> If only two systems have adopted it in the last 13 years, it's
> a failure and the SQL committee is unlikely to want to spend any
> time on it.  In any case, they just issued a spec and so there is
> very unlikely to be another update for another five or so years.

INFORMATION_SCHEMA is also in MySQL 5, so that makes 3 :D

Chris


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