Re: Do we want SYNONYMS?

On 12/6/2010 3:41 PM, Andy Colson wrote:
> On 12/6/2010 3:30 PM, Michael C Rosenstein wrote:
>> Here's a short overview of what Oracle synonyms provide:
>> http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28318/schema.htm#i5669
>>
>>
>>
>> /m
>>
>
> Hum... can we move away from what oracle supports? Cuz PG is not going
> to support anything like it.
>
> And can we get away from oracle parlance? Michael, can you tell us, in
> PG terms, what you could have used. (err, just saw your "example
> webAppUser" above... which I think pretty much covers that, so never mind)
>
> Can someone post what the synonyms will do? And what will be synonym'able?
>
> (cuz JD said: SYNONYMS work for things that aren't a table.
> then tlg said: synonyms for non-table things was pretty much rejected.
>
> so we got... nothing then?)
>
> -Andy
>

oops: s/tlg/tgl/