Re: alter + preserving dependencies

From: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dim(at)hi-media(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: alter + preserving dependencies
Date: 2008-05-07 09:23:44
Message-ID: 48217520.5020205@archonet.com
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Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Le 7 mai 08 à 07:52, Tom Lane a écrit :
>
>> Dimitri Fontaine <dim(at)hi-media(dot)com> writes:
>>> Could we consider ALTER VIEW ALTER COLUMN ... SET DEFAULT ...;?
>>
>> We could if we hadn't already done it five or so years ago.
>> Or am I missing what you need here?
>
> My 8.3.1 installation psql \h only gives me:
> Syntax:
> ALTER VIEW name RENAME TO newname

Ah, you use ALTER TABLE:

ALTER TABLE my_view ALTER COLUMN view_column DEFAULT expr;

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

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