On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 9:15 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Michel Pelletier <pelletier.mic...@gmail.com> writes: > > I get that this is synonymous in most cases, except when there is an > event > > trigger for `ALTER TABLE`, it ends up firing the event trigger for the > > views, and any event triggers expected to fire on `ALTER VIEW` statements > > do not fire. > > > Is this something we can contribute a fix for, or is this some kind of > > necessary b/w compat issue that must remain? > > We're not likely to change the fact that you're allowed to write ALTER > TABLE for this, so if your event triggers get broken by doing that > you'd best fix the event triggers. >
For sure, and we're working on fixing the triggers, I should have been more clear that I'm not suggesting any changes to the server behavior, just to the dump/restore process. > I don't have any great objection to making pg_dump emit the more modern > spelling (I think ... you'd need to look into pg_restore to make sure > it's not assuming something in this area). But doing that won't > really remove the hazard. > Agree it won't remove the hazard, but should reduce the kind of collateral damage we encountered. Will examine pg_restore as you suggested to scope the work better. Thank you! -Michel
