Re: [GENERAL] type creates broken view, which can't be deleted - Mailing list pgsql-general

> It looks like there's a bug that allows you to create views with columns of type unknown, and then prevents you from
droppingthe view/table. 
>
> alpha_2=> \i brokenview
> CREATE VIEW article_contrib_info AS
>      SELECT ac.article_id,
>             p,firstname,             -- TYPO HERE, USED COMMA INSTEAD OF PERIOD
>             p.lastname
>        FROM person p, article_contributor ac
>       WHERE ac.person_id = p.person_id;
> NOTICE:  create: attribute named "p" has an unknown type
> NOTICE:  unknown node tag 704 in OffsetVarNodes()
> NOTICE:  Node is: { IDENT "p" }
> NOTICE:  copyObject: don't know how to copy 704
> CREATE
> alpha_2=> \d article_contrib_info

I couldn't recreate it in the current source tree:

    create view xxy as select p, relname from pg_class;


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