Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Actually, I wonder whether we still need to support conversion of
>> tables to views at all. That was never meant as anything but a
>> temporary hack to allow loading pre-7.1 pg_dump scripts.
> IIRC I tried it when I was reviewing the updatable views patch, and it
> worked.
Well, yeah, it still works for the cases it was intended to work for.
What I'm wondering is what other weird corner cases might need to be
forbidden to keep it secure against people who are looking for ways
to break it.
regards, tom lane
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