From: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
To: scott.marlowe <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
Cc: greg@turnstep.com, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Are we losing momentum?
Date: 21 Apr 2003 17:47:08 -0400
Message-ID: <1050961628.382.4.camel@tokyo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0304211417350.5883-100000@css120.ihs.com>
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On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 16:26, scott.marlowe wrote:
> Yet there is no equivalent materialized view that puts the data together
> for the user. I don't know about you, but show table tablename is a bit
> easier to grasp for beginners than the above sequence of SQL statements.
Granted -- but I don't think that replacing or augmenting the system
catalogs with a set of SHOW commands is a good idea (which is what you
suggested originally). IMHO enhancing the system catalogs by adding
views that encapsulate more of the \ command functionality into the
backend is a good idea, and one that should be implemented eventually.
AFAIK that's been the consensus for some time...
Cheers,
Neil
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