Re: slightly confusing "contents of views"

On 12.08.26 06:39, jian he wrote:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/app-pgdump.html
> <<>>
> As well as tables, this option can be used to dump the definition of
> matching views, materialized views, foreign tables, and sequences. It
> will not dump the contents of views or materialized views, and the
> contents of foreign tables will only be dumped if the corresponding
> foreign server is specified with --include-foreign-data.
> <<>>
>
> Views don't have content, the preceding sentence already mentioned we
> will dump the definition of views.
>
> So we can change
> ``It will not dump the contents of views or materialized views,``
> to
> ``It will not dump the contents of materialized views,``

Views have content in a way. It is computed on the fly. One could
imagine a pg_dump feature that dumps out view content like a table (with
COPY or INSERT commands) and allows restoring it. I think it's not
redundant to clarify that this does not happen.