[GENERAL] Adding columns to a view

2005-12-27 Thread Ingo van Lil
Hi there, is there any way to add new columns to a view without dropping and recreating it (and thus every other view that depends on it)? A friend of mine came up with a crude hack that involves manipulating the reltype flag in pg_class so Postgres thinks the view is actualy a table, using 'ALTER

Re: [GENERAL] Adding columns to a view

2005-12-28 Thread Ingo van Lil
On 28 Dec 2005, Florian G. Pflug wrote: > >I could think of a few situations where extending a view might be > >useful, and I'd appreciate to see it supported. I don't see any reason > >not to allow it as long as no existing columns are removed or have their > >type changed. > > Well, some other v

Re: [GENERAL] Adding columns to a view

2005-12-30 Thread Ingo van Lil
On 28 Dec 2005, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> Well, in my case the situation is further complicated by the fact that >> adding a column to the view should be done automatically from a trigger >> function. I wanted some kind of matrix view that had a column for every >> row in a certain table. And w