Re: About "Allow VIEW/RULE recompilation when the underlying tables change"

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> The TODO item is terribly underdocumented, but I think what it's on
>>> about is that right now we refuse commands like ALTER COLUMN TYPE if
>>> the column is referenced in a view.  It would be nice to propagate
>>> such a change into views if possible.
>
>> I'm unconvinced that this is, as you would say, even mildly sane.
>
> I've updated the TODO item to link to this discussion, so at least the
> next three people who pop up with "let's just store the view source!"
> will have some idea of what they're up against.

Excellent. :-)

...Robert