On Sat, 19 Oct 2013 22:38:28 -0500 Brian Crowell <br...@fluggo.com> wrote:
> Hello! I'm evaluating PostgreSQL as a replacement for SQL Server in our > in-house systems. I've been really impressed with it so far, and I'm eager > to try it with our data sets. > > I've run across one thing that would make a transfer difficult. Postgres > doesn't preserve the source code for views, as far as I can tell. It parses > them and then prints them its own way. We have a lot of complicated views, > where both the formatting and the comments are significant. In fact, we > produce some of our system documentation directly from the comments. > > Is there currently a way to preserve the original source code of a view as > entered in the CREATE VIEW statement? You could adjust your workflow to use something like dbsteward: http://dbsteward.org/ -- Bill Moran <wmo...@potentialtech.com> -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
