Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is a backwards-compatibility hangover.
But I'd not want to break it just because someone thinks the hack is
ugly. It was ugly from day one.
I agree it shouldn't be removed -- I was just curious to see what was
using it. It's certainly ugly, though.
Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Under what circumstances do we convert a relation to a view? Is this
functionality exposed to the user?
This is a backwards-compatibility hangover. pg_dump scripts from
somewhere back in the Dark Ages (6.something) would represent a view
as
CREATE
I noticed the following code in src/backend/rewrite/rewriteDefine.c,
circa line 390:
/*
* Are we converting a relation to a view?
*
* If so, check that the relation is empty because the storage
* for the relation
