From: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-patches@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Are we losing momentum?
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 14:57:27 -0700
Message-ID: <20030601215727.GA65470@perrin.int.nxad.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306012200570.2610-100000@peter.localdomain>
References: <20930.1054399740@sss.pgh.pa.us>
<Pine.LNX.4.44.0306012200570.2610-100000@peter.localdomain>
> > Now, not only can we emulate "show tables", but people can easily
> > add application-specific "show whatever" commands, which seems
> > tremendously cool.
>
> We already have that. They're called views.
Um, I'm interested in aiding in the conversion of users from MySQL to
PostgreSQL (how ever it happens, I don't really care). Tom and Rod
are interested in an extensible/programmable SHOW syntax (very cool
and much more interesting than the hack I put together). Views solve
none of the above problems. -sc
--
Sean Chittenden
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