On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 8:22 AM, ash <a...@commandprompt.com> wrote: >> None of that involves answering hypothetical questions; but what you >> want to do does, and that I think is the problem in a nutshell. > > In a nutshell I'd like PostgreSQL to just re-parse the *current* view > definition. Should that throw an error, user intervention will be > required anyway, but most of the time it should just work.
What exactly do you mean by "re-parse the current view definition"? The only form of the view definition we actually have is already parsed into an internal form (see pg_rewrite) which, for the reasons I've attempted to explain, is not easy to adapt to new column types. I suppose we could deparse that definition and then reparse the results, but that could lead to some very surprising consequences (some of which are security-relevant). -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
