2010/10/19 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <[email protected]>:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Ravi Katkar <[email protected]> writes:
>>> Is there any feature to drop the view with out cascading the dependents.
>>
>> No.  But why don't you use CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW?
>>
> only caveat is, it won't work if he adds/removes any columns. CREATE
> OR REPLACE VIEW is rather useless in most practical implementations.

In recent versions of postgres (I think 8.4+?) you can add columns to
the view via create/replace (not drop of course).  This greatly
reduces the practical annoyances of dropping view dependencies, at
least for me...

merlin

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