----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Studenmund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 8:22 AM
> My description of namespaces seems to have caused a fair bit of confusion. > Let me try again. > > The ability of the package changes to automatically check standard when > you give an ambiguous function name while in a package context is a > convenience for the procedure author. Nothing more. > > It means that when you want to use one of the built in functions > (date_part, abs, floor, sqrt etc.) you don't have to prefix it with > "standard.". You can just say date_part(), abs(), floor(), sqrt(), etc. > The only time you need to prefix a call with "standard." is if you want to > exclude any so-named routines in your own package. Quick question: would it be possible then create a 'system' package and 'system' (or 'master' if you will) schema (when it's implemented), move over all the system tables (pg_*) into the master schema and functions into the 'system' package, so that no name conflicts will arise when creating types, functions, tables, etc with the same names as system ones? -- S. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
