Re: add_missing_from breaks existing views - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: add_missing_from breaks existing views
Date
Msg-id 6691.1130341316@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: add_missing_from breaks existing views  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: add_missing_from breaks existing views
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Should we allow CREATE VIEW to run with "add_missing_from = true" until
> we fix CREATE VIEW to handle this cleanly?

No.  Not only is that horridly ugly, it doesn't fix the problem, because
CREATE VIEW is just one case (see also CREATE RULE).  If we were to
defeat add_missing_from for both, there wouldn't be much left of it at
all.  Going back to default-true would be far cleaner.
        regards, tom lane


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