Re: [SQL] Unable to read from a view

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> On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Jan Wieck wrote:
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> > > Hi all,
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> > > I just created a view and have been unable to read from it.  I am
> > > Apache/1.3.1 (Unix) PHP/3.0.3 and Postgres 6.4.  When I tried to do a
> > > select it gives the following error message:
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> > > real=> select * from pubsearch;
> > > ERROR:  nodeRead: Bad type 0
> > >
> > > I created the view with the following select statment:
> > >
> > > select distinct users.firstname, users.lastname, publication.title,
> >          ^^^^^^^^
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> >     DISTINCT isn't supported in view definitions. You can SELECT
> >  from view's distinct, but you cannot define them to be.  Nor
> >  could you define views with group by and order by.
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> I have tried to drop the view and it gives the same error message.  Is
> there any way to get rid of them (2).

    Don't  know if it really works for you (I can't reproduce the
    problem shortly), but try this as postgres superuser:

        DELETE FROM pg_rewrite WHERE rulename = '_RETpubsearch';
        DROP TABLE pubsearch;


Jan

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