Re: Documentation enhancement

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Documentation enhancement
Date: 2011-02-01 22:18:00
Message-ID: 201102012218.p11MI1m26388@momjian.us
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Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to suggest to enhance the documentation of the CREATE VIEW
> statement.
>
> I think the fact that a "SELECT *" is internally stored as the expanded
> column list (valid at the time when the view was created) should be
> documented together with the CREATE VIEW statement. Especially because
> the example does use SELECT * to create the view.

Agreed. The attached, applied patch documents this behavior.

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