Re: idea: storing view source in system catalogs

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 02:03:17PM -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> I wonder if there is any merit to the idea of storing the 'create
> view' statement that created the view in an appropriate place.
> There are basically two reasons for this:

+1 for DDL in general, including the original CREATE and appending all
subsequent ALTERs.  DROP would have to make the thing go away.  I
suppose CREATE OR REPLACE would also wipe the earlier versions, but
I'm not married to to that idea.

Cheers,
David.
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