Re: [HACKERS] Beta for 4:30AST ... ?

From: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Ed Loehr <eloehr(at)austin(dot)rr(dot)com>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Beta for 4:30AST ... ?
Date: 2000-02-21 20:28:28
Message-ID: 3.0.1.32.20000221122828.010b4250@mail.pacifier.com
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At 03:27 PM 2/21/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:

>I don't like shipping betas with broken pg_dump; that makes life
>unreasonably difficult for beta testers, if we have to force another
>initdb before release. So I put in a quick hack solution: don't print
>the column alias list at all unless there is a table alias. This makes
>the rule's FROM clause conform to ANSI syntax. If you actually did
>write
> create view foo as SELECT alias FROM table table (alias);
>then it will dump as
> create view foo as SELECT table.realcolname AS alias FROM table;
>but there's no harm done. Better solution needed but I'll let Thomas
>provide it.

EXCELLENT!

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
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