Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 655C79FA0EE for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 03:39:02 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 47255-06 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 03:39:02 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A5C59F9EF0 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 03:39:00 -0400 (AST) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 05 Nov 2006 07:38:58 -0000 Received: from dslb-084-063-034-223.pools.arcor-ip.net (EHLO colt.pezone.net) [84.63.34.223] by mail.gmx.net (mp035) with SMTP; 05 Nov 2006 08:38:58 +0100 X-Authenticated: #495269 From: Peter Eisentraut To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Create View Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 08:38:56 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Mark Simon References: <454D81EB.1010003@manngo.net> In-Reply-To: <454D81EB.1010003@manngo.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611050838.56984.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200611/53 X-Sequence-Number: 26705 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/