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

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(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 18:02:43
Message-ID: 20091210180243.GM15554@alvh.no-ip.org
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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.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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