Re: [GENERAL] Bug with ALTER TABLE

I an confirm this is a bug.  The line:

> View definition: Not a view

is the incorrect part.


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> I've discovered a bug in ALTER TABLE behaviour when it comes to
> renaming a view.
> 
> I'm not sure if renaming a view is supported but Postgres will let you
> do it with ALTER TABLE aview RENAME TO aview2; SELECT operations still
> work on the resulting view after this command but a dump or \d aview2
> will now print out :
> 
> oldplumbing=# \d t
>                  View "t"
>  Attribute  |       Type        | Modifier
> ------------+-------------------+----------
>  ?column?   | text              |
>  address    | character varying |
>  builder    | character varying |
>  subdiv     | character varying |
>  plan_#     | character varying |
>  sched_date | date              |
>  plan_id    | integer           |
> View definition: Not a view
> 
> This is obviously not correct.
> 
> -- 
> chalk slayer
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