Re: How to union tables and have a field with UNIQUE constraint?

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Katona Gabor wrote:

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>
> > I would argue that this should be disallowed, since it does not do
> > anything useful and can only mislead people into thinking that it
> > has some effect.
> >
> > Since triggers on a view won't do anything either, I don't see how one
> > could expect REFERENCES to a view to work. The system ought to reject
> > all this stuff as unimplemented.
>
> OK, I understand the problem with referencing a view and I changed my code
> to use CREATE TABLE AS instead of a view (the created table will change very
> rarely, so I'll update it then via a trigger). Is this way ok now and will
> work until the end of time :) ?

That doesn't sound like something that'll stop working, so you should be
safe.