Re: RFD: schemas and different kinds of Postgres objects

From: "Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>
To: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Bill Studenmund" <wrstuden(at)netbsd(dot)org>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RFD: schemas and different kinds of Postgres objects
Date: 2002-01-23 09:59:18
Message-ID: 46C15C39FEB2C44BA555E356FBCD6FA42128DA@m0114.s-mxs.net
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> I don't buy that. If all you're looking for is preserving
>
> foo.bar <==> bar(foo)
>
> for compatibility, then you can simply say that "bar" cannot be
> schema-qualified in the left form (so it needs to live in the current or
> the default schema). We currently only have one default schema, so that's
> backward compatible. I think this syntax is a mistake, so I don't feel
> compelled to provide more than backwards compatibility.

This syntax is actually my favorite :-) I use it heavily for calculated
columns. I don't feel it is a mistake.

Andreas

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