Re: pretty print viewdefs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: pretty print viewdefs
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Msg-id 4A958344.4060108@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: pretty print viewdefs  (decibel <decibel@decibel.org>)
Responses Re: pretty print viewdefs  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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decibel wrote:
> On Aug 26, 2009, at 9:02 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> The tiny patch attached fixes a long-standing peeve of mine (and at 
>> least one of my clients'), namely that the target list printed in 
>> viewdefs are unreadable.
>>
>> example output now looks like this:
>>
>>    regression=# select pg_get_viewdef('shoe',true);
>>                    pg_get_viewdef                   
>> -----------------------------------------------
>>      SELECT
>>         sh.shoename,
>>         sh.sh_avail,
>
>
> Did we kill the idea of trying to retain the original view definition? 
> Granted, that doesn't really help for SELECT *...
>

That has nothing at all to do with the issue. The question is not about 
whether to keep the original, it's about how to format the reconstructed 
query.

cheers

andrew


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