On Sun, 03 Nov 2019 16:15:23 -0500, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
wrote:
>Michael Shapiro <mshapiro51@gmail.com> writes:
>> It seems that the definition of a view from pg_catalog.pg_views does not
>> qualify the tables used in the view if the tables are in the current search
>> path.
>
>> Is it possible to either have the definition always qualify all tables
>> independent of the search_path (or else provide a new column that does
>> that)?
>
>Why don't you just change the search path to empty before selecting?
>
> regards, tom lane
I'm guessing this is fine inside a transaction, but what if you're
using a client that commits by statement? In that case, wouldn't the
change to the path affect the other backends?
George
