It will be a very pleasant idea. Although I am an application developer I don't know if I have enough knowledge to do that. Do you know how could I help the PostgreSQL development ?
Another feature I missed is the "returning" clause of the Oracle "INSERT" SQL command, which allow the user to retrieve the "serial" value after an insert command, which works even in a concurrent network environment.
Thanks a lot.
-- Jayme Jeffman Filho GSEE - PUCRS +55 51 91123422
----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Nolan To: tino@wildenhain.de (Tino Wildenhain) Sent: 24-May-2005 12:49:39 -0300 CC: jjeffman@cpovo.net, pgsql-general@postgresql.org (Postgresql-General) Subject: Re: [GENERAL] table synonyms Unless it changed in 8, you can't insert into or update a view.
I don't know if rules will do the trick or not, to be honest I haven't figured out what they can and cannot do. As someone who used to use synonyms at the user/schema level in Oracle as a way to restrict access to a subset tables based on user-specific criteria (eg, restricting salesman 'X' to only his accounts in the customer master table), yes, synonyms would be nice.
But if you really want them, become part of the development effort. -- Mike Nolan