Andrew - Supernews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2005-10-26, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Pretending it's the user's mistake isn't >> an answer that fits down my craw very well...
> I'm not claiming it's the user's mistake. My point is that if the user > did in fact remove add_missing_from after creating views that depend on it, > then they have already run into a bug. No, you're looking at this in the wrong direction. The problem is that the user hasn't had to do anything so far, because add_missing_from has defaulted to true in every prior release. So he could have been sailing along with views written in the old style up to now, and not noticed any problem. We are creating the problem by changing the default behavior ... or at least, that's how it will look to people who get burnt by this. After sleeping on it, I feel that we should probably just fix the code (to make the problem go away going forward) and document the possible need to turn on add_missing_from to load old dump files as an incompatibility. We've had worse ones. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match