Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump(all) and views, broke

>
> Hi all
>
> CREATE RULE "_RETmessages" AS ON SELECT TO "messages" DO INSTEAD SELECT
> "title", "mess", "iurl", "lurl", "posted", "fname", "lname", "email",
> "uid", "ppid", "pid", "bid" FROM "post", "users" WHERE "uid" = "uid";
> ERROR: Column uid is ambiguous
>
> It left off the table names from 'WHERE "uid" = "uid";'
>
> I do not profess to understand all this rule stuff, but I don't understand
> why when I create a view using 'create view ....', then why does pg_dump
> need to create the view as a table, then later create a rule to make the
> table into a view? Why not just dump a 'create view ....' command
> instead? Not that it matters, as long as it works, just seems confusing
> is all.

Creating a table first and turn it later into view by CREATE
RULE is just for simplification of pg_dump. It does not need
to make a difference between those rules that are handmade
production rules and those that came in due to CREATE VIEW.

But the above is a bug and I'll fix it soon.

Jan

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