Re: idea: storing view source in system catalogs

From: "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Andreas Pflug" <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
Cc: "Florian Pflug" <fgp(dot)phlo(dot)org(at)gmail(dot)com>, "David Fetter" <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, "PG Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: idea: storing view source in system catalogs
Date: 2008-05-21 12:11:37
Message-ID: b42b73150805210511l121bce34qf4f1b9204863546d@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:39 AM, Andreas Pflug
<pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> wrote:
> Not the whole reason. To get a view definition that is more readable, the
> pretty_bool option of pg_get_viewdef already does some newline and indent
> formatting. Not the initial formatting, but Good Enough (TM), I believe.

This is where I disagree. It really can make your sql quite
unreadable, adding all kinds of extra casts and parenthesis and such.
I am very particular about how my sql is formatted.

merlin

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