Re: Views, views, views! (long)

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
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Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-05-06T04:22:40Z
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Tom, Andrew, Robert,

> More to the point: how can you build a "good" interface on top of a
> "bad" one?  Whatever fundamental shortcomings exist in the latter cannot
> be hidden by the former.

I think "bad" and "good" are pretty irrelevant myself.  The system tables are 
very "good" at what they do: support the postgresql code base.  They are not 
*meant* to be user-friendly.   That's why we need a different "interface" to 
be "good" for a different purpose.  Which is what we're trying to do.

-- 
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco