Re: Oracle Style packages on postgres

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Dave Held <dave(dot)held(at)arraysg(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Oracle Style packages on postgres
Date: 2005-05-11 21:40:09
Message-ID: 20050511214009.GB31103@decibel.org
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On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 05:28:22PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jim C. Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> writes:
> > On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 04:49:52PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Besides, I can't wait to hear the moans from the newsysviews crew when
> >> the implications of this sink in ;-) ;-)
>
> > Oh no, not recursive function calls! :P
>
> No, actually, I was wondering where the potentially N levels of schema
> names would appear in the output ...

My immediate thought is that they would be appended together in 'dot
notation'; 'schema1.schema2.schema3', since that's the definative way to
refer to the schema in such a scheme.
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