Re: Prepping to break every past release...

On Mar 4, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Believe it or not, a large PostgreSQL user in LA just buttonholed  
> me about that particular feature idea at SCALE.  So it might be  
> generally useful as well -- not just for the system catalogs, bug  
> to allow businesses with long-use databases to manage change over  
> time.


Yes, I think aliasing (especially at the table level) would be handy.

And +1 on reviving newsysviews, but of course I'm biased... ;P
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