Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sep 10, 2011, at 11:26 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> (IOW, rather than "fix" this I'd prefer to rip out the code altogether.
>> But maybe we should wait a couple more years for that.)
> IIRC, it's not dead code. I think you can still generate such a dump if you use CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW to manufacture
apair of mutually recursive views.
Oh, yeah, I'd forgotten about that. In general that's pg_dump's
strategy for breaking a circular dependency loop that involves a view.
> Now we should probably disallow that, but we currently don't.
Losing that particular case isn't problematic, but I'm not sure that
that's the only possible circularity involving a view. One idea that
comes to mind is
create table foo (list-of-columns);
create function foofunc () returns setof foo as ...;
create rule .... as select * from foofunc();
This only saves somebody from citing the list of column types twice,
so maybe we could blow off this case too; but who's to say there are
not more-useful cases that would create circularities?
regards, tom lane