Re: Oracle Style packages on postgres

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
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 21:43:32
Message-ID: 21297.1115847812@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Jim C. Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> writes:
> On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 05:28:22PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> 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.

That's OK for human consumption but I'm not so sure it'll be of any
value to programs. At the very least you'd have to quotify the names,
so that a.b can be told from "a.b".

regards, tom lane

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