Re: database name aliases?

From: Reece Hart <reece(at)harts(dot)net>
To: Talha Khan <talha(dot)amjad(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: database name aliases?
Date: 2006-11-07 00:29:33
Message-ID: 1162859373.4423.63.camel@snafu.site
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On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 04:54 +0500, Talha Khan wrote:

> You can do this by using a script. I mean whenever you are creating a
> new version of the database. you can do that by running a script that
> creates a database and then stores the name of that database in an
> environmental variable . Now you can run psql by connecting to a
> database through that variable.

I think I understand the gist of your proposal, but psql was just one
client example. In principle, I'd want the same alias to be exposed to
psql, perl DBI, odbc, jdbc, etc. I really think this should be done in
the database itself to ensure consistency.

-Reece

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Reece Hart, http://harts.net/reece/, GPG:0x25EC91A0

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