Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2022-12-02 00:08:20 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Just the table-to-view hack. I'm not aware that there are any other
>> cases, and it seems hard to credit that there ever will be any.
> I can see some halfway credible scenarios. E.g. converting a view to a
> matview, or a table into a partition. I kind of wonder if it's worth keeping
> the change, just in case we do - it's not that easy to hit...
I'd suggest putting in an assertion that the relkind isn't changing,
instead. When and if somebody makes a credible feature patch that'd
require relaxing that, we can see what to do.
(There's a couple of places in rewriteHandler.c that could
perhaps be simplified, too.)
regards, tom lane
