Re: feature request: pg_dump --view - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: feature request: pg_dump --view
Date
Msg-id 20060719134433.GD20016@kenobi.snowman.net
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In response to Re: feature request: pg_dump --view  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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* Andrew Dunstan (andrew@dunslane.net) wrote:
> elein wrote:
> >>pg_dump -t <view_name> will work.
> >
> >Oh, you got me all worked up.  I was reading this as a way to
> >dump the CONTENTS of a view not the DEFINITION of a view.
> >I thought someone sneaked in pg_dump of a query in there.
> >
> >
>
> How would you load such a dump, since views are by default select-only?

Create the appropriate table definition, and then load it up?  Of
course, an option to have the pg_dump include the table definition
derived from the view would be nice also.
Thanks,
    Stephen

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