ash, * ash (a...@commandprompt.com) wrote: > This came up recently on general list (and I've just hit the same issue > today): > > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/cab7npqtlmmn1ltb5we0v0do57ip0u73ykwzbzytaxdf1caw...@mail.gmail.com > > Why couldn't postgres re-create the dependent views automatically? I > mean it knows which views depend on the altered column and keeps the > view definition, no?
Might be pretty complicated in the end..
> Would a patch likely to be accepted? How hard do you feel this might be
> to implement? Any caveat that defeats the purpose of such feature?
It'd need to be explicitly requested, eg a 'CASCADE' option.
Thanks,
Stephen
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