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: 2005-05-10T04:59:51Z
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Robert, > As Jim points out, their current long term goal is to be a replacement for > the current system views (hence *new* system views), and the current > project was created to facilitate development. What I am thinking is that > the project take on a different goal, mainly that it be an add on that > intends to work along side the current system views and be both backward > and forward compatible (hence *enhanced* system views). It's a subtle > difference. *what* current system views? We appear to have 8 of them. 2 we're not touching at this time. The other 6 are all deficient in various ways, and those ways are not fixable in a backwards-compatible fashion. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco