Re: Updateable Views or Synonyms.

On 2012-05-29, Tim Uckun <timuckun@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am wondering if either of these features are on the plate for
> postgres anytime soon? I see conversations going back to 2007 on
> updateable views and some conversations about synonyms but obviously
> they have never been added to the database for some reason or another.

updateable views can be implemented using rules

> With regards to synonyms. It seems to me I could kind of achieve the
> same functionality by creating a dblink into the same database. Would
> that be an insane?

what sorts of operations do synonyms need to support?
truncate?
alter table?
reindex?

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