Re: POSS. FEATURE REQ: "Dynamic" Views

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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