On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 08:16 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > If all you were doing with the view was reading from it then sure... > Creating the rules for all the views you want to make them updatable > wouldn't be fun.
Well, updateable views are on the TODO list: expending our finite development resources implementing those would add plainly useful functionality and improve our conformance with the SQL standard, neither of which can be said about synonyms. > It'd be nice to be able to support them in Postgres without > having to go through alot of work. I'm still unconvinced that this feature would be sufficiently useful to justify the maintenance burden, in addition to the added complexity: even if it is implemented in a way that imposes minimal *runtime* overhead, new features add complexity: introducing a bunch of new DDL commands and a new concept ("synonyms") makes the system more difficult for users to understand. -Neil ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster