Re: \d type queries - why not views in system catalog?!?

Views or C-functions, I think the idea is excellent.  It's the concept
that I really like.

Greg


On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 15:00, Dave Page wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg Copeland [mailto:greg@CopelandConsulting.Net] 
> > Sent: 13 January 2003 20:56
> > To: Robert Treat
> > Cc: greg@turnstep.com; PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] \d type queries - why not views in 
> > system catalog?!?
> > 
> > 
> > Oh!
> > 
> > That's an excellent idea.  Seemingly addresses the issue and 
> > has value-add.  I'm not aware of any gotchas here.  Is there 
> > something that is being overlooked?
> 
> Why use functions instead of views? Most UIs will want to format the
> output as they see fit so a recordset would be the appropriate output.
> Yes, a function could do this, but surely views would be simpler to
> implement and maintain.
> 
> Regards, Dave.
> 
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