On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 12:09:26 -0600, Jeffrey Melloy
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Although Oracle doesn't have a search path, it is possible to make
functions publicly available by doing grant blah to public. After
that they can be used without a schema identifier.
There is also
CREATE PUBLIC
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pgsql-general@postgresql.org
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You'll probably be best off explicitly providing schema names for your common
functions, e.g. SELECT * FROM common.mytable . Depending on your app,
that could be better from a security point of view in PostgreSQL as well,
if you want to prevent your users from sneakily replacing the common
Chris wrote:
I know this isn't entirely postgresql specific, but it wouldn't be on
another list either so here goes...
I am writing an open source application where I would like to support
at least oracle, and possibly firebird or DB2, in addition to
postgresql which will be the default. I'm not
I know this isn't entirely postgresql specific, but it wouldn't be on
another list either so here goes...
I am writing an open source application where I would like to support
at least oracle, and possibly firebird or DB2, in addition to
postgresql which will be the default. I'm not going to try
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
... My question is how easily would this work with other databases? I
know Oracle supports schema's, but I dont' know about the others. I
also don't know if other databases have the concept of a search path,
but I would think that they do.
AFAIK the idea of a
AFAIK the idea of a schema search path is specific to PG. I'm not sure
how you will handle your public functions in other DBMSes.
regards, tom lane
I'll probably have to go research this for each database. I have no
plans on immediately supporting other
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:25:39 -0800, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know this isn't entirely postgresql specific, but it wouldn't be on
another list either so here goes...
I am writing an open source application where I would like to support
at least oracle, and possibly firebird or DB2, in
