Re: SYNONYMS (again)

Excerpts from Joshua D. Drake's message of mié jun 22 15:37:17 -0400 2011:
> Per:
> 
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-11/msg02043.php
> 
> It seems we did come up with a use case in the procpid discussion. The 
> ability to change the names of columns/databases etc, to handle the 
> fixing of bad decision decisions during development over time.
> 
> Thoughts?

Let's start with what was discussed and supported in that thread, that
is, databases.  It seems less clear that columns are widely believed to
be a good idea to have synonyms for.  Besides, synonyms for databases
should be reasonably simple to implement, which is not something I would
say for columns.

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