Re: Adding \ev view editor?

On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 11:41:31AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> All,
>
> I've grown to adore the new \ef function editor.
>
> It doesn't seem like it would be that difficult to add a view editor as
> \ev. While editors would also be good for other objects, I don't think
> we can do \et or \er etc. because those objects don't support CREATE OR
> REPLACE.
>
> Opinions? Other objects which could take \e?

For objects that don't take CREATE OR REPLACE, \e could include the
object definition at the top in a multi-line comment, then start with

ALTER [OBJECT]

Cheers,
David.
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