Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE2BFB5DC0F for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:30:43 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 56633-09 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:30:36 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mx01.bfk.de (mx01.bfk.de [193.227.124.2]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F4B8B5DC02 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:30:36 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mx00.int.bfk.de ([10.119.110.2]) by mx01.bfk.de with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) id 1Qw8r4-0006d6-4b for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:30:34 +0000 Received: by bfk.de with local id 1Qw8r4-0007ux-1W for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:30:34 +0000 From: Florian Weimer To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Database alias Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:30:34 +0000 Message-ID: <82ippnky8l.fsf@mid.bfk.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.405 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.505 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201108/198 X-Sequence-Number: 38185 We've got some systems which use a historic database name and would like to transition them to our current naming scheme. Is there support for some form of database aliases? The alias doesn't need to be visible in server responses, so we could probably add a kludge to the server code which rewrites the database name in incoming connection requests. 8-/ --=20 Florian Weimer BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstra=DFe 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99