Re: [HACKERS] SYNONYMS (again)

2011-08-04 Thread Boszormenyi Zoltan
2011-06-23 20:44 keltezéssel, Gurjeet Singh írta: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Joshua D. Drake > wrote: > > Per: > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-11/msg02043.php > > It seems we did come up with a use case in the procpid discuss

Re: [HACKERS] SYNONYMS (again)

2011-06-23 Thread Gurjeet Singh
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Per: > > http://archives.postgresql.**org/pgsql-hackers/2010-11/**msg02043.php > > It seems we did come up with a use case in the procpid discussion. The > ability to change

Re: [HACKERS] SYNONYMS (again)

2011-06-23 Thread Gurjeet Singh
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote: > Gurjeet Singh wrote: > > > Instead of just synonyms of columns, why don't we think about > implementing > > virtual columns (feature as named in other RDBMS). This is the > ability to > > define a column in a table which is derived using a

Re: [HACKERS] SYNONYMS (again)

2011-06-23 Thread Kevin Grittner
Gurjeet Singh wrote: > Instead of just synonyms of columns, why don't we think about implementing > virtual columns (feature as named in other RDBMS). This is the ability to > define a column in a table which is derived using an expression around other > non-virtual columns. How do you see tha

Re: [HACKERS] SYNONYMS (again)

2011-06-23 Thread PostgreSQL - Hans-Jürgen Schönig
On Jun 23, 2011, at 12:52 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Excerpts from Joshua D. Drake's message of mié jun 22 15:37:17 -0400 2011: >> Per: >> >> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-11/msg02043.php >> >> It seems we did come up with a use case in the procpid discussion. The >> abili

Re: [HACKERS] SYNONYMS (again)

2011-06-23 Thread PostgreSQL - Hans-Jürgen Schönig
On Jun 23, 2011, at 12:52 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Excerpts from Joshua D. Drake's message of mié jun 22 15:37:17 -0400 2011: >> Per: >> >> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-11/msg02043.php >> >> It seems we did come up with a use case in the procpid discussion. The >> abili

Re: [HACKERS] SYNONYMS (again)

2011-06-22 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Joshua D. Drake's message of mié jun 22 15:37:17 -0400 2011: > Per: > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-11/msg02043.php > > It seems we did come up with a use case in the procpid discussion. The > ability to change the names of columns/databases etc, to handle the

[HACKERS] SYNONYMS (again)

2011-06-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Per: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-11/msg02043.php It seems we did come up with a use case in the procpid discussion. The ability to change the names of columns/databases etc, to handle the fixing of bad decision decisions during development over time. Thoughts? JD -- Co