On Thursday 05 May 2005 19:37, Hannu Krosing wrote: > On N, 2005-05-05 at 22:43 +0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > > > The purpose of the new system views... > > > > As long as they are in a separate schema (like information_schema, > > but hopefully not as long). pg_views? pg_info? information_skema? :) > > > > > But if you think that nobody needs these views, it's because you > > > haven't had much contact with end users lately. > > > > Well, who really *does* need these? After all, end users should be > > using an interface of some sort. (DBD::Pg, phpPgAdmin, psql, etc). > > Perhaps they can be thouhgt of as another "interface of some sort" ;) > > They may be even not installed by default, but bundled and as easy to > install as any (other) contrib module.
I was starting to think this... like this should be a project on foundry called "enhanced system views" that would be fairly database version independant and people could install into any databases they needed them in. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])