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Re: Open 7.3 items

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-01T20:06:42Z
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Tom Lane writes:

> We've had several proposals in this thread for complicated extensions
> to the user naming mechanism.  I think that's overdesigning the feature,
> because we have *no* examples of real-world need for such things except
> for Marc's situation.  Let's keep it simple until we see real use cases
> that can drive the design of something fancy.

I don't buy this argument.  The reason we have no examples is that people
are happily using the feature and don't have any reason to tell the world
about it.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net