Nick,

> > Extend current SQL implementation to support database.tablename
> > notation as was used in QLI. Firebird can do it, its just not

surfaced

> > in SQL. Sponsor?
>
> As a long-time ingres A/P & DBA I'm happy to try and answer any

questions

> about it.
>
> I don't know the correct name for it but Ingres also has

user.tablename

> which
> defaults to ingres.tablename but if joe has created his own copy then

when

> joe connects he sees his own table and would have to specify
> ingres.tablename to get to the same one as everyone else

That feature is known as namespaces.

Which is not to be confused with the QLI functionality, which allows for
cross-database queries.

When the engine is modified to support both QLI and namespaces, the QLI
tablename notation would read like "database.namespace.tablename"


Sean