Re: Pseudo modification of views and triggers

[Dave Page]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Michel POURE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: 19 February 2002 19:28
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [pgadmin-hackers] Pseudo modification of views and triggers
> 
> 
> Dear Dave,
> 
> I implemented pseudo-modification of views based on the 
> function example. 
> Pseudo modifiation is carried by a simple DROP /CREATE in 
> both cases. This 
> was pretty easy : I just had to copy and adapt your code...

Cool, I'll review it shortly.

> This seems to work fine. I will do the same for triggers and 
> commit tomorrow 
> after testing.

OK.

> I enabled pseudo-modification features only for >= 7.3. IMHO 
> this is better 
> to avoid confusion (or we would get questions like "why can 
> we modify views 
> and not functions?" from 7.1 users).

Sounds reasonable.

> One question : why did you keep the .ddl compatibility with 
> previous dll 
> versions? It is not necessary as the .dll is loaded at every 
> startup. No?

Because it avoids having to recompile pgAdmin and all the plugins *every*
time pgSchema is rebuilt to fix a minor bug. If you need to break
compatibility though, then it's not a problem.

Cheers, Dave.