Re: crosstab documentation should add a note about use in materialized views

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: robrwo(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: crosstab documentation should add a note about use in materialized views
Date: 2022-11-22 21:35:52
Message-ID: 3558401.1669152952@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
>> When using a crosstab in a materialized view, if the SQL is not qualified
>> with a schema, that restoring a database from a dump may fail. See the
>> discussion in
>> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/16202-b6b345c9d2819409%40postgresql.org

> I am trying to understand the scope of this breakage. I think it is
> because crosstab specifies queries as strings, and a materialized view
> has to run the query during restore to populate the materialized view.
> Is this the only combination of pg_dump restore breakage?

It doesn't sound like this is in any way unique to crosstab.
Any underqualified reference to a user-defined object can cause
problems during dump/restore, because of the restricted search_path
we use during restore.

regards, tom lane

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