Re: select view definition from pg_views feature request

From: Michael Shapiro <mshapiro51(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: select view definition from pg_views feature request
Date: 2019-11-04 13:48:50
Message-ID: CAGCvxeb63kt0yCOdGB2dkuEzvdKk33LQkAk-GawynMuc2SUnZw@mail.gmail.com
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Is that how PgAdmin does it? The views extracted by PgAdmin are fully
qualified....

On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 3:15 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Michael Shapiro <mshapiro51(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > It seems that the definition of a view from pg_catalog.pg_views does not
> > qualify the tables used in the view if the tables are in the current
> search
> > path.
>
> > Is it possible to either have the definition always qualify all tables
> > independent of the search_path (or else provide a new column that does
> > that)?
>
> Why don't you just change the search path to empty before selecting?
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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