Re: Bug in renaming view columns - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: Bug in renaming view columns
Date
Msg-id 40A01A0A.7070501@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Re: Bug in renaming view columns  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Take it a little further: if we extend ALTER TABLE to be able to alter
> view column types, would you expect CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW to stop
> checking that the column types didn't change?  I'd argue that that's a
> real bad idea.  If you want the view's output signature to change, you
> should have to use a command that indicates that's your intent.

Sounds reasonable.  I was just wondering if renaming columns with ALTER 
TABLE was intentional...

Chris




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