Re: doc page: ALTER VIEW

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: "Sahagian, David" <david(dot)sahagian(at)emc(dot)com>, "pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: doc page: ALTER VIEW
Date: 2013-02-09 16:44:50
Message-ID: 6007.1360428290@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 11:58 -0500, Sahagian, David wrote:
>> On the doc page for ALTER VIEW . . .
>>
>> In the discussion about SET/DROP DEFAULT,
>> I am thinking that [instead-of insert trigger] should be mentioned in addition to [ON INSERT rule].
>>
>> "A default value associated with a view column is inserted into INSERT statements on the view before the view's ON INSERT rule is applied, . . ."

> This paragraph was rewritten as part of the updatable views patch, and
> it appears to now say what you wanted.

Looking at this page, it occurred to me that there really ought to be
an explicit example of using SET DEFAULT. So I added one.

regards, tom lane

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