On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 08:02:54PM -0700, Guyren Howe wrote:
> Seems like a simple question, but I’ve never found a good answer to this and 
> similar issues.
> 
> I would think it was safe to let me add columns to a view on which other 
> views depend, but Postgres won’t let me.
> 
> I can imagine ways of sort-of dealing with this. I might maintain a SQL file 
> with views to create in a suitable order, Then I could drop all views, edit 
> the definition of one, then run the file, but this is awfully tedious.
> 
> What is best practice in this situation?

If you're not re-ordering existing columns, you can use CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW

Justin


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