Re: Views, views, views: Summary of Arguments - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Views, views, views: Summary of Arguments
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In response to Re: Views, views, views: Summary of Arguments  (Andrew - Supernews <andrew+nonews@supernews.com>)
Responses Re: Views, views, views: Summary of Arguments  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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Andrew - Supernews wrote:

>Most significantly, there is a lot of comment on what people _think_
>we could do (or not do), and no comment about what we actually _did_.
>I strongly suggest to anyone thinking of commenting on them that you
>actually install them and look at them first - while the project is as
>yet unfinished, and there is a lack of documentation and plenty of
>rough edges (and quite likely some bugs too), it does actually work and
>a number of people (some of whom have commented in this thread) have
>already found it useful. Grab a copy of it from pgfoundry's CVS, go into
>the sql/ directory and run ./build.sh yourdatabasename  (as a superuser,
>you can add options like -U if needed - the options to build.sh are just
>passed on to psql).
>
>  
>

I did look over them. Maybe I'd get the whole thing better if I had a 
brief description of each view rather  that having to infer the purpose 
for myself from an sql statement of a list of fields. If you're 
concerned to make a case I think that would be useful. If that's been 
published and I missed it I apologise.

cheers

andrew


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