2010/10/20 Merlin Moncure :
> In recent versions of postgres (I think 8.4+?) you can add columns to
> the view via create/replace (not drop of course). This greatly
> reduces the practical annoyances of dropping view dependencies, at
> least for me...
Ok, We're still on 8.3 here, and management re
2010/10/19 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz :
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Ravi Katkar writes:
>>> Is there any feature to drop the view with out cascading the dependents.
>>
>> No. But why don't you use CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW?
>>
> only caveat is, it won't work if he adds/removes an
You can always recreate the dependent views in the same process, since you
won't lose any data. If there are also linked tables you could use COPY
before deleting and recreating, it's fairly fast.
But..does the structure of your data really need to change? Just guessing,
but it just sounds a littl
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Subject: Re: [GENERAL] drop view with out cascading the dependents
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ravi Katkar writes:
>> Is there any feature to drop the view with out cascading the dependents.
>
> No. But why don't you use CREAT
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ravi Katkar writes:
>> Is there any feature to drop the view with out cascading the dependents.
>
> No. But why don't you use CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW?
>
only caveat is, it won't work if he adds/removes any columns. CREATE
OR REPLACE VIEW is rathe
Ravi Katkar writes:
> Is there any feature to drop the view with out cascading the dependents.
No. But why don't you use CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW?
regards, tom lane
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Hi List,
Is there any feature to drop the view with out cascading the dependents.
Below is my requirement.
I have a view which is dependent on the other view/table. I wanted to drop the
view dynamically and recreate the view with same name ( definition of view will
differ ) with out cascading
