Re: POSS. FEATURE REQ: "Dynamic" Views

Brand X simulates this in their GUI diagrammer by tracking
dependencies and dropping and recreating dependent views on schema
changes. This might be a better job for one of the GUI tools for us
too, rather than trying to put it in the back end. Brand X doesn't do
it in their backend either.

On 8/25/05, Jim C. Nasby <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 03:03:30PM -0700, CSN wrote:
> > For lack of a better term, but I was curious if there
> > is/was any thought about making PG's views
> > automatically "see" changes in underlying tables, as
> > opposed to currently having to drop/create all
> > corresponding views if a table's structure (add/delete
> > fields, etc.) is changed.
>
> There's not currently a TODO for this, no.
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html I'm not sure how hard it
> would be to do, since currently CREATE VIEW v AS SELECT * FROM t
> actually expands the * out at creation time.
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> Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com
> Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com 512-569-9461
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