Hello 2010/12/7 Joshua D. Drake <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 09:14 -0500, Michael C Rosenstein wrote: >> I won't press the issue for Postgres any further, but I will attest that >> synonyms work quite elegantly in Oracle, provide valuable functionality, >> and do not generally sow confusion among skilled developers. ÂIt sounds >> like the proposed "synonym" feature for Postgres perhaps had a different >> intention than I assumed, however, especially due to the differences >> between the Oracle and PG viz. how "users," "schemas" and "databases" work. > > Your perception has been mirrored on the Oracle free list. Really what > PostgreSQL people need to come to grips with is whether or not we want > to make it easier for others to port to Pg or not. (assuming > reasonableness) > it's question if this is task more for EnterpriseDB and less for PostgreSQL? Pavel > > > JD > >> >> Thanks. >> >> /mcr >> >> > > -- > PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor > Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 > Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering > http://twitter.com/cmdpromptinc | http://identi.ca/commandprompt > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
