| From: | Zeugswetter Andreas OSB sIT <Andreas(dot)Zeugswetter(at)s-itsolutions(dot)at> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: patch: Add columns via CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW |
| Date: | 2008-08-08 10:12:21 |
| Message-ID: | 6DAFE8F5425AB84DB3FCA4537D829A561CD147632B@M0164.s-mxs.net |
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> If you accept the idea that column identity should be based on column
> name, then the only two operations that are really necessary are
> "CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW" and "ALTER VIEW RENAME COLUMN", and it is
> 100% clear what the semantics of those operations should be.
+1
I think this would be an easily useable and understandable concept.
I also fully support Robert's reasoning in his next reply to Tom,
detailing why his patch's provided functionality is acceptable.
Andreas
PS: "alter view" in O does not change the base definition,
it only allows modifying view constraints.
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