Re: drop view with out cascading the dependents - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Merlin Moncure
Subject Re: drop view with out cascading the dependents
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Msg-id AANLkTiksOnpU3=GaWptT151KsojhCBfm2iukiOnru3s9@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: drop view with out cascading the dependents  (Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: drop view with out cascading the dependents
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2010/10/19 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Ravi Katkar <Ravi.Katkar@infor.com> writes:
>>> Is there any feature to drop the view with out cascading the dependents.
>>
>> No.  But why don't you use CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW?
>>
> only caveat is, it won't work if he adds/removes any columns. CREATE
> OR REPLACE VIEW is rather useless in most practical implementations.

In recent versions of postgres (I think 8.4+?) you can add columns to
the view via create/replace (not drop of course).  This greatly
reduces the practical annoyances of dropping view dependencies, at
least for me...

merlin

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