| From: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>, elein <elein(at)varlena(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: Views, views, views! (long) |
| Date: | 2005-05-06 03:08:29 |
| Message-ID: | 427ADFAD.90405@familyhealth.com.au |
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>>2. Almost all of the information that cannot fit will be useful to
>>other database systems as well, and should be suggested to the ANSI/ISO
>>committee. Since INFORMATION_SCHEMA is a very new idea (only two
>>adopters that I know of so far) I expect it will need to grow and
>>PostgreSQL could be one of the contributors.
>
>
> [ raised eyebrow... ] INFORMATION_SCHEMA is in the SQL92 spec.
> If only two systems have adopted it in the last 13 years, it's
> a failure and the SQL committee is unlikely to want to spend any
> time on it. In any case, they just issued a spec and so there is
> very unlikely to be another update for another five or so years.
INFORMATION_SCHEMA is also in MySQL 5, so that makes 3 :D
Chris
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