Jim, > Perhaps a good way to accomplish both goals is to have the set of > human-readable views, and to add columns to the system tables/views that > conform with the new, more logical naming convention. This way people > accessing system information programmatically can use pg_catalog (and > migrate to the new naming convention), while people who are doing ad-hoc > queries can just hit the human-readable stuff.
If you think that anyone on this list is going to let us re-name columns in the system *tables*, you're on more pain meds than I realized ... And in what way is using fully qualified names programmatically a problem? -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]