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Re: Can a view use a schema search_path?

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On 17 September 2012 11:06, Adam Mackler <adammackler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have the feeling the answer is no, but I would like an authoritative
> answer before I give up.
>
> My plan was to have two schemas: one for the live data, and one for staging,
> training, and testing.  Both schemas would have identically-named tables.  I
> wanted to create a single view in the public schema, and have that one view
> refer to the tables in one or the other schema depending on my search_path
> setting at the time I query the view.
>
> But it seems that at the time the view is created it decides which schema's
> table it's referring to, even if I don't explicitly qualify the table names
> with the schema name.
>
> Am I correct in concluding that there's no way to have a single view in the
> public schema that selects data from tables in different other schemas
> depending on my search_path at the time I execute a query involving that
> view?
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Adam Mackler

Wouldn't it be easier to create a view in each schema with the
appropriate search_path?

That way, you get the view that your search_path points to, which then
in turn uses the tables from the search_path in use when the view was
created.

-- 
If you can't see the forest for the trees,
Cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest.


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