Github user DaveBirdsall commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-trafodion/pull/661#discussion_r75234096
--- Diff: core/sql/sqlcomp/CmpSeabaseDDLrepos.cpp ---
@@ -516,6 +585,62 @@ short
CmpSeabaseDDL::upgradeReposComplete(ExeCliInterface * cliInterface,
case 1:
{
+ // If there were views on the old Repository tables, they are
+ // still there, by virtue of the fact that we did "SKIP VIEW
CHECK"
+ // on the ALTER TABLE RENAME. Now we will capture their view
+ // definitions (which will contain the old table name, not the
+ // renamed table name) and replay that against the new
Repository
+ // table. If the replay fails, we treat that as an
unrecoverable
+ // situation and ignore it. Instead, we'll save the view
definition
+ // text in the TEXT table with a different TEXT_TYPE and clue
the
+ // user in that it is there. They can then try to create the
view
+ // at their leisure. Note that they may have to change the view
+ // definition themselves, e.g. if we dropped a column from the
+ // repository table that their view happened to reference.
+ //
--- End diff --
Agreed!
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