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Re: Backend-internal SPI operations

Mark Hollomon <mhh@nortelnetworks.com>

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From: "Mark Hollomon" <mhh@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <janwieck@Yahoo.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-08-30T14:45:29Z
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Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> >> The  right  way  IMHO would be to give views another relkind.
> 
> > This appeals to me.
> 
> I like it too.  Aside from the advantages Jan mentioned, we could also
> refrain from creating an underlying file for a view, which would be
> nice to avoid cluttering the database directory.

Excellent. I think we have a consensus. I'll start coding in that direction.

Anybody have any thoughts on the upgrade ramification of this change?

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