Hello Ray, On Tue, 2021-09-28 at 09:24 -0400, Raymond Brinzer wrote: > Greetings. > > > > I'm wondering whether such a feature could be added, without breaking > either existing code, or compliance with the SQL standard. For > instance, borrowing :: from languages like Ruby and Perl: > > SELECT * FROM ::projects::contacts::people; -- Absolute path > cd ::projects; -- Session-specific > SELECT * FROM contacts::people; -- Relative path > Double colons are used for casting. E.g., $1::INET or $1::INTEGER where $1 is a string. What you are after are sub schemas. set schema projects; set subschema contacts; select * from people; I don't know enough about the catalogue tables to know if a tree structure for schemas is possible, the amount of work involved or even if there is a valid use case. My 2 cents.
