On Tue, 2005-25-10 at 17:43 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > What I suggest we do about this is change addImplicitRTE() to set > inFromCl true for implicitly added RTEs, so that the view rule will > later be dumped as if the query had been written per spec.
Sounds reasonable. I wonder if this should be backpatched -- ISTM the proper representation of the view is with an explicit FROM list anyway, and making the correctness of view definition dependent on a GUC variable is only asking for trouble. > 1. Tell people they may have to set add_missing_from = true to reload > a dump that contains such views. pg_dump could itself specify "SET add_missing_from = true" before view definitions. However, that is definitely a hack :( -Neil ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend