Guyren Howe wrote:
I’ve a set of interrelated views. I want to drop a column from a table and from 
all the views that
cascade from it.

I’ve gone to the leaf dependencies and removed the field from them. But I can’t 
remove the field
from the intermediate views because Postgres doesn’t appear to be clever enough 
to see that the
leafs no longer depend on the column. Or did I just miss one?

In general, this seems like a major weakness expressing a model in Postgres (I 
get that any such
weakness derives from SQL; that doesn’t stop me wanting a solution).

Thoughts? Comments?

This usually involves a pg_dump in the custom format, editing the list file, creating a script with pg_restore.

I described a way I have had success with it at one point at


https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/55C3F0B4.5010600%40computer.org



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