Hello
2010/12/7 Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>:
> On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 09:14 -0500, Michael C Rosenstein wrote:
>> I won't press the issue for Postgres any further, but I will attest that
>> synonyms work quite elegantly in Oracle, provide valuable functionality,
>> and do not generally sow confusion among skilled developers. It sounds
>> like the proposed "synonym" feature for Postgres perhaps had a different
>> intention than I assumed, however, especially due to the differences
>> between the Oracle and PG viz. how "users," "schemas" and "databases" work.
>
> Your perception has been mirrored on the Oracle free list. Really what
> PostgreSQL people need to come to grips with is whether or not we want
> to make it easier for others to port to Pg or not. (assuming
> reasonableness)
>
it's question if this is task more for EnterpriseDB and less for PostgreSQL?
Pavel
>
>
> JD
>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> /mcr
>>
>>
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