Re: database name aliases?

On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 16:29 -0800, Reece Hart wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 04:54 +0500, Talha Khan wrote:
> > You can do this by using a script. I mean whenever you are creating
> > a new version of the database. you can do that by running a script
> > that creates a database  and then stores the name of that database
> > in an environmental variable . Now you can run psql by connecting to
> > a database through that variable.
>
> I think I understand the gist of your proposal, but psql was just one
> client example. In principle, I'd want the same alias to be exposed to
> psql, perl DBI, odbc, jdbc, etc. I really think this should be done in
> the database itself to ensure consistency.
>
> -Reece

You can use "ALTER DATABASE name RENAME TO newname;". Does that help?

I don't think you cane have aliases to the same database, however.

Regards,
    Jeff Davis