Re: [HACKERS] RFC: Query Planner making a distinction between Cross

2004-02-12 Thread Tom Lane
"scott.marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmmm. I would think the first step would be to simply change the cross-db > queries aren't supported to one of "schema either does not exist or is not > in the search path". AFAICT the issue is that Stef thought it was complaining about a different

Re: [HACKERS] RFC: Query Planner making a distinction between Cross

2004-02-12 Thread scott.marlowe
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Stef wrote: > > > case in point, the example trigger. i would have expected > > > deliberate schemaname.table during an insert to work, but > > > instead the parser complains about cross-database. > > > > I would think just changing the error message to "no schema by the name

Re: [HACKERS] RFC: Query Planner making a distinction between Cross Database and Cross Schema ?

2004-02-12 Thread Tom Lane
Stef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For example, i would expect the following > to work: > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test_autohist() RETURNS trigger > AS 'BEGIN > INSERT INTO history.test2 VALUES > (new.field1,history.test_hist.nextval(), new.field2, new.field3, ne

Re: [HACKERS] RFC: Query Planner making a distinction between Cross

2004-02-12 Thread scott.marlowe
U. Postgresql doesn't natively support cross database queries... On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Stef wrote: > Hey there everyone. > > Sorry for what seems to be a rather strange > thought but, could we change the seperator used to > distinguish 'cross-database' vs 'cross-schema' ? > > Fo

Re: [HACKERS] RFC: Query Planner making a distinction between Cross Database and Cross Schema ?

2004-02-12 Thread Stef
> > case in point, the example trigger. i would have expected > > deliberate schemaname.table during an insert to work, but > > instead the parser complains about cross-database. > > I would think just changing the error message to "no schema by the name of > suchandsuch found" would make it pret

Re: [HACKERS] RFC: Query Planner making a distinction between Cross Database and Cross Schema ?

2004-02-12 Thread Stef
> U. Postgresql doesn't natively support cross database queries... > I know, but it does schema's, and currently, the same notation is used to specify schema's as 'cross database'. So the planner often reports 'cross-database not allowed' in areas where it should at least report 'cross-sche

Re: [HACKERS] RFC: Query Planner making a distinction between Cross

2004-02-12 Thread scott.marlowe
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Stef wrote: > > U. Postgresql doesn't natively support cross database queries... > > > > I know, but it does schema's, and currently, the same > notation is used to specify schema's as 'cross database'. > > So the planner often reports 'cross-database not allowed' > in

[HACKERS] RFC: Query Planner making a distinction between Cross Database and Cross Schema ?

2004-02-12 Thread Stef
Hey there everyone. Sorry for what seems to be a rather strange thought but, could we change the seperator used to distinguish 'cross-database' vs 'cross-schema' ? For example, i would expect the following to work: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test_autohist() RETURNS trigge