Greg Stark wrote:
>Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
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>>Well, I just added to TODO:
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>> * Allow VIEW/RULE recompilation when the underlying tables change
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>>Is dynamic view a industry-standard name? If so, I will add it to the
>>TODO.
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>"DYNAMIC" is something I made up.
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>"ALTER VIEW RECOMPILE" is Oraclese but I'm not sure what we're talking about
>here is exactly the same purpose. I'm not sure it even does anything in Oracle
>any more. It used to be that *any* DDL on underlying tables caused view on
>them to become invalid and produce errors until they were recompiled. I think
>that's changed and "recompile" may be a noop now on Oracle.
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It's still necessary in Oracle 9i. Any time a table is changed that has
a view on it Bad Things Happen.
Jeff
