Re: disallow LOCK on a view - the Tom Lane remix

* Mark Hollomon <mhh(at)mindspring(dot)com> [000829 17:13] wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 04:14:00PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> >
> > Ok, I'm wondering if this patch will cause problems locking a table
> > that has had:
> >
> > CREATE RULE "_RETfoo" AS ON SELECT TO foo DO INSTEAD SELECT * FROM foo1;
> >
> > I need to be able to lock the table 'foo' exclusively while I swap
> > out the underlying rule to forward to another table.
> >
>
> Yes, it would. 'foo' would be seen as view.
>
> Okay, this gives me a reason to to do it the hard way.
>
> I will try to add a relisview attribute to pg_class.
> That way, we can differentiate between tables with rules
> and things created with 'CREATE VIEW'.
>
> Hmmm... guess I'll need to change the definition of the pg_views
> view as well.

Ok, thanks I appreciate you taking my situation into consideration.

thanks,
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