| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, andrew(at)supernews(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Views, views, views! (long) |
| Date: | 2005-05-10 20:12:32 |
| Message-ID: | 200505101312.32791.josh@agliodbs.com |
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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
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