faking writable views as tables - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Enrico Weigelt
Subject faking writable views as tables
Date
Msg-id 20050629115604.GC15893@nibiru.borg.metux.de
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Responses Re: faking writable views as tables  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
List pgsql-general
Hi folks,


I'm using several writable views (-> update & insert rules)
and got trouble with pgadmin - it refuses to insert/edit
values since it sees the table as a view and believes views
are never writable.

So i've just set the reltype in pg_class to 'r'. The frontends
now see it as a writeble table again, but when dropping the
table, i've got a warning, that some file (seems to be
<oid-of-schema>/<oid-of-table>) could not be deleted.
Is this the table storage file, which simply doesn't exist
on views ?

Are my changes to pg_class dangerous in any way ?


cu
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