Re: pg_dump dumps views as tables???

Thank you both *very* much!

Ross J. Reedstrom wrote:

> If you look farther down that same dump, you'll see a CREATE RULE
> that looks something like:
>
> CREATE RULE AS ON SELECT
>
>
> CREATE RULE "_RETincluded_works" AS ON SELECT TO "included_works" DO
> INSTEAD SELECT "works"."uuid", "works"."title" as "lhs" [...]
>
> In other words, pg_dump, especially before 7.1, exposes the details of
> how views are implemented, rather than recreating the SQL you wrote to
> create the schema.
>
> Ross
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:12:32AM +0100, Gerard Mason wrote:
>
>>Anybody?
>>
>>
>>"Gerard Mason" <gerardmason(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote in message
>>news:9gbd3s$2d6$1(at)news(dot)tht(dot)net(dot)(dot)(dot)
>>
>>>I am running postgresql-server-7.0.3-12mdk (Mandrake 8.0). The relevant
>>>
>>part
>>
>>>of my build script looks like this:
>>>
>>>create view included_works
>>>as
>>> select uuid, title as lhs
>>> , trim(to_char(cast(year_of_publication as int), '0000')) as rhs
>>> from works
>>> where include=true
>>>;
>>>
>>>What pg_dump actually outputs is this:
>>>
>>>CREATE TABLE "included_works" (
>>> "uuid" character(36),
>>> "lhs" character varying(80),
>>> "rhs" text
>>>);
>>>
>>>
>>>I would be more appalled if I was less gobsmacked. Surely I'm doing
>>>something wrong? But I can't find any reference to this in either the
>>>
>>Admin
>>
>>>Guide or the Reference Manual (though admittedly I'm looking at the 7.1
>>>ones -- the 7.0 ones didn't have any info on it at all, I think).
>>>
>>>Help.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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