Re: [HACKERS] CREATE VIEW fix

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
Cc: Postgres Hackers List <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] CREATE VIEW fix
Date: 2000-03-08 01:31:46
Message-ID: 200003080132.UAA06460@candle.pha.pa.us
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> I've got patches to fix the CREATE VIEW command to support SQL92
> syntax for result column names, a la
>
> CREATE VIEW (a, b, c) AS SELECT ...
>
> It is an almost trivial fix, requiring the addition of a single field
> in the View structure and a few lines of code in analyze.c.
>
> I'll commit this at the same time I commit support for the SQL92
> OVERLAPS operator, which will need an initdb anyway since there are a
> few new functions in pg_proc. I believe that we have at least one
> other patch coming which will force an initdb anyway, and I'll
> coordinate with that.

Sounds good. We may have some people running production on 7.0 beta.
They will need to use pg_upgrade.

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