On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 09:43:52AM -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote: > Mostly no. A hardwired restriction is that a view has a rigidly > defined list of columns with defined types. You can skirt that > restriction a couple of ways -- for example your view could be a > single column text (or xml, or hstore) with the columns you want > encoded into it.
I'm wondering whether a set-returning (or these days, I guess, table-returning) function or a polymorphic function might make sense here. I haven't read the use case carefully (and I probably won't), but it seems like it might not be impossible that way. Best, A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@crankycanuck.ca -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
