Re: [HACKERS] Beta for 4:30AST ... ?

At 03:27 PM 2/21/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:

>I don't like shipping betas with broken pg_dump; that makes life
>unreasonably difficult for beta testers, if we have to force another
>initdb before release.  So I put in a quick hack solution: don't print
>the column alias list at all unless there is a table alias.  This makes
>the rule's FROM clause conform to ANSI syntax.  If you actually did
>write
>    create view foo as SELECT alias FROM table table (alias);
>then it will dump as
>    create view foo as SELECT table.realcolname AS alias FROM table;
>but there's no harm done.  Better solution needed but I'll let Thomas
>provide it.

EXCELLENT!



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