Mimic ALIAS in Postgresql?

From: Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Mimic ALIAS in Postgresql?
Date: 2024-01-16 17:20:45
Message-ID: CANzqJaCc5jVh3J3EA0j4Dz7V2HsrcR9eE0AE45pt-PmMrjhdmg@mail.gmail.com
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Some RDBMSs have CREATE ALIAS, which allows you to refer to a table by a
different name (while also referring to it by the original name).

We have an application running on DB2/UDB which (for reasons wholly unknown
to me, and probably also to the current developer) extensively uses this
with two schemas: MTUSER and MTQRY. For example, sometimes refer to
MTUSER.sometable and other times refer to it as MYQRY.sometable.

My goal is to present a way to migrate from UDB to PG with as few
application changes as possible. Thus, the need to mimic aliases.

Maybe updatable views?
CREATE VIEW mtqry.sometable AS SELECT * FROM mtuser.sometable;

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