Re: UNION within VIEW workarounds?

From: Adam Haberlach <adam(at)newsnipple(dot)com>
To: Joel Burton <jburton(at)scw(dot)org>
Cc: Ed Loehr <eloehr(at)austin(dot)rr(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: UNION within VIEW workarounds?
Date: 2000-12-08 02:38:00
Message-ID: 20001207183800.A13754@ricochet.net
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On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 07:27:08PM -0800, Joel Burton wrote:
> > Given UNIONs are not implemented within views in 7.0.3, what are
> the
> > generally suggested work-arounds, if any?
>
> Ick. We just did the full SELECTs all the time. A pain.
>
> FYI, this is fixed in 7.1. Beta Real Soon Now.

Out of curiosity, what is the advantage, other then simplification
of the query itself, of using a view over a straight select?

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