| From: | PostgreSQL - Hans-Jürgen Schönig <postgres(at)cybertec(dot)at> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Joshua D(dot) Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: SYNONYMS (again) |
| Date: | 2011-06-23 07:04:17 |
| Message-ID: | 23A65C90-7AE7-42AE-A973-3439498DC6E6@cybertec.at |
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On Jun 23, 2011, at 12:52 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Joshua D. Drake's message of mié jun 22 15:37:17 -0400 2011:
>> Per:
>>
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-11/msg02043.php
>>
>> It seems we did come up with a use case in the procpid discussion. The
>> ability to change the names of columns/databases etc, to handle the
>> fixing of bad decision decisions during development over time.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Let's start with what was discussed and supported in that thread, that
> is, databases. It seems less clear that columns are widely believed to
> be a good idea to have synonyms for. Besides, synonyms for databases
> should be reasonably simple to implement, which is not something I would
> say for columns.
sorry, i missed the links:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-03/msg00085.php
many thanks,
hans
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