Re: synonym

["Medi Montaseri" <montaseri@xxxxxxxxx>]

PostgreSQL does not support SYNOSYM or ALIAS. Synonym is a non SQL 2003 feature implemented by Microsoft SQL 2005 (I think). While it does provide an interesting abstraction, but due to lack of relational integrity, it can be considered a risk.

That is, you can create a synonym, advertise it to you programmers, the code is written around it, including stored procedures, then one day the backend of this synonym (or link or pointer) is changed/deleted/etc leading to a run time error. I don't even think a prepare would catch that.

It is the same trap as the symbolic links in unix and null pointers in C/C++.

Cheers
Medi

On Dec 13, 2007 10:39 PM, DBA <s.borse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:

Hi,

Is it possible to create synonym in postgresql?

I am getting error while creating synonym.

ERROR:  syntax error at or near "synonym" at character 8

Thanks & Regards,
Suresh