On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 10:14:05PM -0500, Russ Brown wrote: > On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 17:12 -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:08:46PM -0300, Bruno Almeida do Lago wrote: > > > Sometime ago I saw a project with the purpose of creating Oracle views over > > > the PostgreSQL catalog. > > > > > > I can't remember/find it anymore. Do you know if it's still available? > > > > > > Is there any other project aiming to create friendly catalog views? > > > > Not oracle views, but there is > > http://pgfoundry.org/projects/newsysviews/ . > > This looks very interesting and useful... However, the documentation > notes that it was hoped to get included into 8.1, but I presume that it > didn't make it in there. Are there any indications as to whether it > might get included in 8.2? The history is that we developed it outside of the rest of the hacker community and then got considerable push-back when we introduced it. Since then we've gotten side-tracked on other things. In a nutshell, the arguments were essentially about why we should have this in addition to information_schema. I think there might still be some opportunity to get this included if the hacker community can reach some kind of consensus. I know one prevalent opinion was that it should be made to more closely match the naming conventions of information_schema. Anyway, if users start finding use for this we'll have better grounds to stand on for including it in the backend. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
