Re: schema support, was Package support for Postgres

* Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
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| > resources as well that should not conflict with other packages, like temp
| > tables or such. It then seems to me that using schemas can solve everything 
| > that packages do and more ?
| 
| Yeah.  I am wondering whether we couldn't support Oracle-style packages
| as a thin layer of syntactic sugar on top of schemas.  I am concerned
| about the prospect that "foo.bar" might mean either "object bar in
| schema foo" or "object bar in package foo".

Agreed, and in Sybase you may declare a procedure in a schema(or 
database which is the Sybase term). If you want it global you declare it
in the "master" schema. 

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