| From: | Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> |
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| To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: CREATE SYNONYM ... |
| Date: | 2006-03-08 18:27:20 |
| Message-ID: | 440F2208.2030809@pse-consulting.de |
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Neil Conway wrote:
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>
> I'm still unconvinced that this feature would be sufficiently useful to
> justify the maintenance burden, in addition to the added complexity:
> even if it is implemented in a way that imposes minimal *runtime*
> overhead, new features add complexity: introducing a bunch of new DDL
> commands and a new concept ("synonyms") makes the system more difficult
> for users to understand.
Synonyms appear to me a little like domains. I like them to abstract
from proprietary data types. Similar, leightweight synonyms (pg_class
entries) allow some abstraction if needed, without using rules. I don't
think that synonyms are more difficult to understand than domains.
Regards,
Andreas
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