[pgadmin-support] ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN in view

[luiz]

Hi all,

I have a scenario like follow (script generated with pg_dump) :

CREATE TABLE teste (
    id integer NOT NULL,
    ds character varying(20),
    n2 character varying(10)
);

CREATE SEQUENCE teste_id_seq
    INCREMENT BY 1
    NO MAXVALUE
    NO MINVALUE
    CACHE 1;

ALTER TABLE teste ALTER COLUMN id SET DEFAULT nextval('teste_id_seq'::regclass);

ALTER TABLE ONLY teste
    ADD CONSTRAINT pk_teste PRIMARY KEY (id);


ALTER SEQUENCE teste_id_seq OWNED BY teste.id;

CREATE VIEW vteste AS
    SELECT teste.id, teste.ds, teste.n2 FROM teste;


ALTER TABLE vteste ALTER COLUMN id SET DEFAULT 
nextval('teste_id_seq'::regclass);


Well this last line make a change on a view column and it works.
I do it because when inserting a row in the view vteste, I got a message error
like "teste.id does not accept NULL values"

Searching in the internet, I found a message where Tom Lane suggest to do this.
Well, I don´t found anything in Postgresql manual saying that we can do it in
views, but I don´t found anything saying that we don´t must do it too.
Since pg_dump generates the script with this definition, I think that they
must be supported by PostgreSQL

The only thing that I have a objection is because this don´t appear in pgadmin
views definition. And we don´t mind that this "ALTER COLUMN" exists in the
Database structure.

I want to request/suggest that views script generates a complete script in the
sqlpane like when select a table (with index,triggers creation sql scripts) or
with at least this DDL, since we can´t see it anywhere. 

May we have a icon for this alter columns in the view definition tree too ?

I´m using pgAdmin 1.6.3 in a winXP pro SP2 with Postgresql 8.2.4

Thanks in Advance

Luiz


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