Re: Views, views, views! (long)

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "Jim C. Nasby" <decibel@decibel.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, andrew@supernews.com, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-05-10T20:12:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom,

> I think the real problem here is that it's hard to be all things to all
> people.  If you suppress display of certain objects, that may be nice
> suppression of clutter for one user, yet render the view useless from
> the perspective of another user --- or even the same user on a different
> day, when he is looking for a particular built-in function for instance.
> (I know it's always bugged the heck out of me that \df editorializes on
> which functions it thinks I want to see.)

But all of the views we've composed as pg_user_* also have a pg_all_*.  So 
users can do what they want.

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco