Re: BUG #5234: ALTER TABLE ... RENAME COLUMN change view definition incorrectly

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, Sergey Burladyan <eshkinkot(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #5234: ALTER TABLE ... RENAME COLUMN change view definition incorrectly
Date: 2009-12-10 18:03:39
Message-ID: 603c8f070912101003t67a36a53y3b2285c582d5b5b7@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Robert Haas escribió:
>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
>> > Hmm.  Cute, but I wonder why we shouldn't just be throwing an error.
>> > As I said last night, the only thing I see wrong with the current
>> > behavior is that the error message isn't phrased in a way that makes
>> > it obvious it's the user's fault.
>>
>> I think the problem we're trying to solve is that the view works but
>> it isn't dumpable.
>
> So it would also be a solution that the ALTER TABLE that renamed the
> column throwed an error if there's a view that requires the name.

Yes. I don't think it's as good of a solution, but it is a solution.

...Robert

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