Dear Regina, Many thanks for trying to help this is much appreciated.
I replaced the function as directed (at least I believe I did!). I removed the table constraints as directed and then created the view as directed. This was done on my laptop so the names are slightly different as I inserted the data table into the ch01 schema. Unfortunately when I try to add the view or the raster directly in QGIS I get : 2015-11-07T13:08:34 0 QGIS starting... 2015-11-07T13:08:35 0 Python support ENABLED :-) 2015-11-07T13:08:49 0 Application state: QGIS_PREFIX_PATH env var: C:/PROGRA~1/QGISPI~1/apps/qgis Prefix: C:/PROGRA~1/QGISPI~1/apps/qgis Plugin Path: C:/PROGRA~1/QGISPI~1/apps/qgis/plugins Package Data Path: C:/PROGRA~1/QGISPI~1/apps/qgis/. Active Theme Name: default Active Theme Path: :/images/themes/default/ Default Theme Path: :/images/themes/default/ SVG Search Paths: C:/PROGRA~1/QGISPI~1/apps/qgis/./svg/ C:/Users/ndm12/.qgis2//svg/ User DB Path: C:/PROGRA~1/QGISPI~1/apps/qgis/./resources/qgis.db 2015-11-07T13:08:49 0 QGIS Ready! 2015-11-07T13:09:32 1 PG: dbname=postgis_in_action port=5433 mode=2 schema=ch01 column=rast table=testrast is an invalid layer - not loaded 2015-11-07T13:18:50 1 PG: dbname=postgis_in_action port=5433 mode=2 schema=ch01 column=rast table=test is an invalid layer - not loaded This is curious as the original tif file loads without error into QGIS directly. Running your query returns r_table_catalog r_table_schema r_table_name r_raster_column srid scale_x scale_y blocksize_x blocksize_y same_alignment regular_blocking num_bands pixel_types nodata_values out_db extent spatial_index postgis_in_action ch01 test rast 27700 None None 2928 2960 True False 1 [u'64BF'] [-9999.0] [False] 0103000020346C00000100000005000000E0CCCCCCB1D517418066666692BE0541E0CCCCCCB1D517418066666692F80C41E0CCCCCCB1681B418066666692F80C41E0CCCCCCB1681B418066666692BE0541E0CCCCCCB1D517418066666692BE0541 True postgis_in_action ch01 testrast rast 0 None None None None False False None None None None None False Darrel
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