Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > That's not what I want. That means that if old_view changes, new_view > > will not reflect the changes. Is there any way to get new_view to > > automatically include all fields from old_view, no matter how many or > > how few fields there are? > > No. This behavior is specifically required by the SQL standard: the > result rowtype of a view is determined when the view is created, and > is not supposed to change when underlying tables have columns added. > That's why we expand * when the view is created. Right, and additional, don't use select *, in particular production code. Andreas -- Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. (Linus Torvalds) "If I was god, I would recompile penguin with --enable-fly." (unknown) Kaufbach, Saxony, Germany, Europe. N 51.05082°, E 13.56889° -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
