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From Vick Khera
Subject Re: Do we want SYNONYMS?
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In response to Do we want SYNONYMS?  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: Do we want SYNONYMS?  ("Daniel Verite" <daniel@manitou-mail.org>)
Re: Do we want SYNONYMS?  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Command Prompt is currently considering writing a patch to provide
> synonyms to PostgreSQL. Is this something the community is interested
> in? Do we have use cases for it? MSSQL, DB2 and Oracle support them.
>

I must be missing something, but really, what's the point of synonyms?
 What's the real-world use case for them?

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