At 22:23 14/09/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>Oh, I finally see the problem: when you come to dump out the rules, you
>need to avoid dumping the rules that correspond to views because you're
>going to emit the CREATE VIEW commands separately.
>
>You don't really need a rulekind though. If it's an ON SELECT rule for
>a relation that you've determined to be a view, then the rule is a
>view rule. Otherwise, you print the rule.
>
It looks like some nice person has defined the 'pg_rules' view which does
not return rules used in views. I'll try using this since it removes
another layer of backend knowledge from pg_dump.
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