To articular my own concerns perhaps a bit better, there are two major things I don't like about the whole DIRALIAS proposal. Number one, you're creating this SQL object whose name is not actually used for anything other than manipulating the alias you created. The users are still operating on pathnames. That's awfully strange.
That's an interesting point and I don't disagree that it seems a little strange. However, isn't this approach similar if not the same (other than operating on path names) as with some other objects, specifically rules and policies?
