Re: Prepping to break every past release...

Josh Berkus wrote:
>
>> Well, honestly, this was one of the reasons why AndrewSN, David and I 
> ... and Elein ...
>
>> pushed NewSysViews.  Non-hackers really shouldn't be accessing the 
>> system catalogs directly, and if information_schema doesn't give them 
>> enough data, we should start adding new views to I_S.
>


This is really a long way from JD's original suggestion, though.

Back on that track, I'd like to see a facility whereby we could provide 
an alias (or synonym, to use a nearby subject) columns and other 
objects. That would help to overcome naming glitches without breaking 
things quite so much.

cheers

andrew