On May 13, 11:31 am, Kev <kevinjamesfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a script that automatically generates the SQL to create some > views. I'd like it to check whether its generated SQL matches the SQL > returned by "select definition from pg_views where...". I've guessed > most of the rules just by looking at the output, but I was surprised > to find that some of my views of the form: > > select.........from b left join a on a.id=b.id > > ...were being translated to this: > > SELECT..........FROM (B LEFT JOIN a ON ((a.id = b.id))) > > ...before being stored in the table pg_views is derived from. My > surprise is at the double parentheses around "a.id = b.id". Is that > supposed to be that way? Is it likely to change? > > Thanks, > Kev
One other thing I'm just curious about, "!=" gets replaced with "<>"...how come? (Feels more VB-ish than C-ish, so I was surprised that that would be the official/preferred reconstruct....) -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
