Re: Views as FROM subselects

Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Tom, I see from the CVS logs you say:
> Subselects in FROM clause, per ISO syntax: FROM (SELECT ...) [AS] alias.
> (Don't forget that an alias is required.) Views reimplemented as expanding
> to subselect-in-FROM. Grouping, aggregates, DISTINCT in views actually
> work now (he says optimistically). No UNION support in subselects/views
> yet, but I have some ideas about that. Rule-related permissions checking
> moved out of rewriter and into executor.

> Does this mean the rewrite system no longer handles views?

Sure it does. It got a lot simpler though.

regards, tom lane