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Re: [ADMIN] Re: [HACKERS] RFC: Industrial-strength logging (longmessage)

Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>

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From: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Tim Holloway <mtsinc@southeast.net>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, "Aaron J. Seigo" <aaron@gtv.ca>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-10-26T07:27:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> 
> One more item I have not heard is that you can create virtual table that
> look like tables but return data about users, queries on SELECT.
> 
> Informix does this.  Allows you to get info, without the need for
> storage.  Not good for every case, but an interesting idea sometimes.
> 

This should come naturally after the function interface is updated
to enable it to return cursors.

A very desirable feature, but I'm not sure anyone is actually working on it.

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Hannu