From: | Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)spamfence(dot)net> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: function depend on view |
Date: | 2012-08-20 12:47:25 |
Message-ID: | 20120820124725.GA4178@tux |
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salah jubeh <s_jubeh(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
> Hello Guys,
>
> I am having a scenario close to the one below, I have defined a function which
> depends on a view. I am able to drop the view, but my server did not complain
> about the dependency.
>
> In the scenario below, one can drop the views a2 and a1 respectively, and when
> executing a3(), certainly an exception will be raised. I think there should be
> an entry for this dependency in the pg_depend table with dependency type normal
I think, there is no real problem, it's (for me) the same as:
test=# select max(id) from table_that_does_not_exist;
ERROR: relation "table_that_does_not_exist" does not exist
LINE 1: select max(id) from table_that_does_not_exist;
The database can't know and analyse the function-body.
Andreas
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