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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Cc: Mark Simon <mark@manngo.net>
Subject: Re: Create View
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 08:38:56 +0100
Message-ID: <200611050838.56984.peter_e@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <454D81EB.1010003@manngo.net>
References: <454D81EB.1010003@manngo.net>

Mark Simon wrote:
>     create view things as select * from whatever;
>
> and then examine my saved view, I find a list of all of the fields
> from whatever. I thought it should be possible to save the star (*)
> as part of the view. Otherwise, I run into the problem of not getting
> all of the fields if I add columns to the table (whatever).
>
> Is this an SQL thing or a PostGreSQL thing?

SQL

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/



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