Re: CREATE VIEW form stored in database?

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 12:30 +0000, Richard Huxton wrote:
> Mario Splivalo wrote:
> > When I create a view, I like to define it like this (just representing
> > the form here):
> [snip]
> > But, when I extracit it from postgres, it's somehow stored like this:
> [snip]
> > The later is much more hard to read, and when I need to change the view,
> > i get rash and stuff :)
> > 
> > Is there a way to tell postgres NOT to format the 'source code' of my
> > views?
> 
> I don't think it stores the "source code", but rather the structure of 
> the underlying query. So I'm afraid you lose the spacing.
> 
> I keep all my definitions in a set of files and read in updates with \i 
> my_filename.sql from psql. That lets me keep all my spaces and comments.
> 

Yes, I'm tied to the pgadmin3 for the moment, so there's nothing I could
do. It's a pain to develop a database such way. 
Mike
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