Re: add_missing_from breaks existing views

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, andrew(at)supernews(dot)com
Subject: Re: add_missing_from breaks existing views
Date: 2005-10-26 17:59:40
Message-ID: 200510261059.40917.josh@agliodbs.com
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Tom,

> After sleeping on it, I feel that we should probably just fix the code
> (to make the problem go away going forward) and document the possible
> need to turn on add_missing_from to load old dump files as an
> incompatibility.  We've had worse ones.

I'll agree with you here, for (1) reason: if we put this off for another
release, the situation's not going to get any better. Eventually, for some
release, we need to break something, because we can't fix the past.

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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