Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not sure to what extent we can apply that theory to views, though. > If it would result in a change in a view's output column datatype, > do we want to allow that (which would mean recursively propagating > that column type change to yet other places)?
Just as a datapoint: In oracle I think this is one of the things that cause the views become invalid and need to be "recompiled". I always found that to be *extremely* annoying. It would be much nicer if they automatically did the right thing. -- greg ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
