Re: [PATCHES] Re: when does CREATE VIEW not create a view? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [PATCHES] Re: when does CREATE VIEW not create a view?
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Msg-id 200009120415.AAA08769@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: when does CREATE VIEW not create a view?  ("Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu>)
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> On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:12:38AM +0900, t-ishii@sra.co.jp wrote:
> > > > Oh, the patch strikes me since it is not "multibyte aware."
>
> O.K. -
> Here's the multibyte aware version of my patch to fix the truncation
> of the rulename autogenerated during a CREATE VIEW. I've modified all
> the places in the backend that want to construct the rulename to use
> the MakeRetrieveViewRuleName(), where I put the #ifdef MULTIBYTE, so
> that's the only place that knows how to construct a view rulename. Except
> pg_dump, where I replicated the code, since it's a standalone binary.
>
> The only effect the enduser will see is that views with names len(name)
> > NAMEDATALEN-4 will fail to be created, if the derived rulename clases
> with an existing rule: i.e. the user is trying to create two views with
> long names whose first difference is past NAMEDATALEN-4 (but before
> NAMEDATALEN: that'll error out after the viewname truncation.) In no
> case will the user get left with a table without a view rule, as the
> current code does.
>
> >
> > Please do so. If you need any help, please let me know.
> > --
> > Tatsuo Ishii
>
> I haven't tested the MULTIBYTE part. Could you give it a quick once over?
>
> Ross
> --
> Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm@rice.edu>
> NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer
> Computer and Information Technology Institute
> Rice University, 6100 S. Main St.,  Houston, TX 77005

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