Re: minor view creation weirdness

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 08:40, Greg Stark wrote:
> Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
>
> > Is this a bug?
> >
> > (using CVS code from yesterday)
> >
> > nconway=# create view baz (a,b) as select 'hello', 'world';
> > WARNING: column "a" has type "unknown"
> > DETAIL: Proceeding with relation creation anyway.
> > WARNING: column "b" has type "unknown"
> > DETAIL: Proceeding with relation creation anyway.
> > CREATE VIEW
> > nconway=#
>
> 7.3 does the same thing actually. I don't know what that means though.

junk=# \d baz
View "public.baz"
Column | Type | Modifiers
--------+-----------+-----------
a | "unknown" |
b | "unknown" |
View definition:
SELECT 'hello' AS a, 'world' AS b;

There is no table behind the view, so there is no way for PostgreSQL to
derive the column types of a and b. A quoted string (as supplied in the
view definition) could be one of text, varchar, char, date, time,
timestamp, cidr and so on.

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