Hey team – I’m sure this has come up, but my search engine skills couldn’t find
an explanation:
Why, when I save a simple view like:
SELECT * FROM a_table
…does PostgreSQL turn the * into a field list like:
SELECT field1, field2, field3, field4 FROM a_table
?
This is super-frustrating, as it
First post here at PostgreSQL; please forgive any etiquette mistakes…
I have a query that extracts a field from a JSONB column, e.g.:
SELECT (((mytable.ajsonbcolumn -> ‘somedata’) -> ‘nested’) ->> ‘first_name’) AS
fname FROM mytable
When I save it into a view, PostgreSQL transforms it thusly:
