Re: Cosmetically-varying casts added to view definitions

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 4:10 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
wrote:

> On 07/30/2018 02:26 PM, Ken Tanzer wrote:
>
> > This doesn't impair the view's functionality, so I can't necessarily
> > complain. But it does make it harder for me to know if the views were
> > recreated correctly. I'd be curious to know what is going on here, and
> > if there's any way to avoid this behavior.
>
> The only way I can think of to maintain a consistent definition is to
> always create the view from the original definition:
>
> CREATE VIEW test_tmp AS (SELECT 1 FROM l_payment_form WHERE
> payment_form_code IN ('CREDIT_CARD','OTHER'));
>

Thanks Adrian. I do have what are supposed to be the original view
definitions, but I'm less than 100% confident they are accurate and
up-to-date, which is why I thought to use the actual definitions as
stored. Might have to rethink that one though, or just take a leap of
faith that the views will functionally be the same!

Cheers,
Ken

p.s., I forgot to mention this in my original post, but for the record, PG
version 9.6.9.

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