Re: [HACKERS] CREATE VIEW fix

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 04:14:35PM +0000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> I've got patches to fix the CREATE VIEW command to support SQL92
> syntax for result column names, a la
> 
>   CREATE VIEW (a, b, c) AS SELECT ...
> 
> It is an almost trivial fix, requiring the addition of a single field
> in the View structure and a few lines of code in analyze.c.
> 

Hmm, couldn't you just rewrite the SELECT d, e, f ... part to use the 
AS syntax? I was thinking that both:
  CREATE VIEW (a, b, c) AS SELECT d, e, f ...  CREATE VIEW AS SELECT d AS a, e AS b, f AS c ...

should result in the same VIEW being created. But, hey, don't let me
knock already written code! 

> I'll commit this at the same time I commit support for the SQL92
> OVERLAPS operator, which will need an initdb anyway since there are a
> few new functions in pg_proc. I believe that we have at least one
> other patch coming which will force an initdb anyway, and I'll
> coordinate with that.
> 
>                       - Thomas

Excellent: Both changes will help with the NIST test suite I'm (trying)
to run.

Ross
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