Indeed, a very well written, descriptive and, as I said, interesting article. It's already been bookmarked so I can look at the interaction of the various elements in the code later since it seems they could help me with other things I have been looking at.

I had completely forgotten the scenario of being able to create functions but not tables. Especially if those tables have no impact on the rest of the schema. I must have been on some happy juice and forgotten what a crazy world wee live in.