>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk> writes:
Andrew> I thought they used CREATE RULE on a table?
Andrew> In fact here is an example from a pg 9.5 pg_dump output (with
Andrew> cruft removed):
And checking other versions, 9.6 is the same, it's only with pg 10 that
it switches to creating a dummy view instead of a table (and using
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW, no mention of rules).
So if the goal was to preserve compatibility with pre-pg10 dumps, that's
already broken; if that's ok, then I don't see any obvious reason not to
also remove or at least deprecate CREATE RULE ... ON SELECT for views.
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