On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 08:02:54PM -0700, Guyren Howe wrote:
> Seems like a simple question, but I’ve never found a good answer to this and similar issues.
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> I would think it was safe to let me add columns to a view on which other views depend, but Postgres won’t let me.
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> I can imagine ways of sort-of dealing with this. I might maintain a SQL file with views to create in a suitable order, Then I could drop all views, edit the definition of one, then run the file, but this is awfully tedious.
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> What is best practice in this situation?
If you're not re-ordering existing columns, you can use CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW
Justin