Re: SELECT * in a view

Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> > That's not what I want. That means that if old_view changes, new_view
> > will not reflect the changes. Is there any way to get new_view to
> > automatically include all fields from old_view, no matter how many or
> > how few fields there are?
>
> No. This behavior is specifically required by the SQL standard: the
> result rowtype of a view is determined when the view is created, and
> is not supposed to change when underlying tables have columns added.
> That's why we expand * when the view is created.

Right, and additional, don't use select *, in particular production
code.

Andreas
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