Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at> writes:
> I don't see why a real view should still be createable by the old
> create table then create rule way.
Because we'll need to be able to read dump files created by existing
versions of pg_dump. If we don't cope with CREATE TABLE + CREATE RULE
then restored-from-dump views won't really be views and will act
differently from freshly created views. Avoiding the resulting
support headaches is worth a little bit of ugliness in the code.
regards, tom lane