X-Original-To: pgsql-patches@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (developer.postgresql.org [64.117.224.193]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEEF49252F7 for ; Sun, 1 Jun 2003 17:57:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from developer.postgresql.org ([64.117.224.193]) by localhost (developer.postgresql.org [64.117.224.193]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 99819-08 for ; Sun, 1 Jun 2003 17:57:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from perrin.int.nxad.com (internal.ext.nxad.com [69.1.70.251]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61CD29252C9 for ; Sun, 1 Jun 2003 17:57:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: by perrin.int.nxad.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 99F2421058; Sun, 1 Jun 2003 14:57:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 14:57:27 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden To: Peter Eisentraut Cc: pgsql-patches@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Are we losing momentum? Message-ID: <20030601215727.GA65470@perrin.int.nxad.com> References: <20930.1054399740@sss.pgh.pa.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: finger seanc@FreeBSD.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3849 3760 1AFE 7B17 11A0 83A6 DD99 E31F BC84 B341 X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Archive-Number: 200306/18 X-Sequence-Number: 7165 > > 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