Re: POSS. FEATURE REQ: "Dynamic" Views

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 04:54:06PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
>
> Ian Harding <harding.ian@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Brand X doesn't do it in their backend either.
>
> If your Brand X is the same as my Brand X then it's worth noting that they
> didn't previously do anything sane in their backend. It used to invalidate all
> your views and you had to recompile them before they would work again.
>
> I wonder whether it would be saleable to have an option to work around this
> "feature". I'm thinking one of two directions:
>
> 1) An alternate type of view that just stores the text of the view and is
> interpreted at time of use like:
>
> CREATE DYNAMIC VIEW foo AS (SELECT * FROM tab)
>
> or 2) A command to recompile a view which would go back to the original source
> and reinterpret it like:
>
> ALTER VIEW foo RECOMPILE
>
> Or I guess you could have the latter and then add the former as a view that
> automatically recompiles any time a object it depends on is altered.

I agree that CREATE DYNAMIC would be a good thing to have. It would
certainly save me time on some of my projects.

Can we TODO this?
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