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 TABLE' to add a new column, restoring the old reltype and changing the _RETURN rule for that view to include the new column as well. The existence of that "solution" lost me a bet and a crate of beer, but I wouldn't really want to use it in a production-stage database. ;-) 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. Cheers, Ingo
