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Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:38:07 +0200
From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
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To: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
CC: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>,
	PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>,
	Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com>,
	Susanne Ebrecht <miracee@miracee.de>
Subject: Re: [DOCS] rename of a view
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Neil Conway wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-07 at 23:13 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Er, was this on the agenda for 8.3?
> 
> Well, it seemed fairly harmless to me (no behavioral changes and very
> little new code, just syntax), so I didn't see a compelling reason to
> delay applying it for a few months. But I can revert it if you'd prefer.

hmm so now we have ALTER VIEW/SEQUENCE commands that can do a bit but
not all of what ALTER TABLE can do (renaming columns of a VIEW or
changing the owner for example).
I agree in principle that having those functionality in ALTER
VIEW/SEQUENCE is a good idea but only bringing in a bit of the required
functionality which still does not solve the "uhm why do I need ALTER
TABLE to manipulate a VIEW" months after the feature freeze sounds a bit
wrong to me :-(


Stefan