Re: default values for views

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Neil Conway <nconway(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: default values for views
Date: 2002-04-15 22:59:17
Message-ID: 200204152259.g3FMxHC02948@candle.pha.pa.us
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Neil Conway wrote:
> The attached patch allows views to have default values. You can't
> specify a default value within a CREATE VIEW statement, it must be
> done using ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... SET DEFAULT after the
> view has already been created. Most of the hard work was done by
> Tom Lane, I just patched pg_dump and updated the documentation.

I am confused. I didn't think we could insert into views. Can we?

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