Looks like this was fixed in 6.5.
> I just checked the problem with views using current cvs and it's
> stell here.
>
> Regards,
>
> Oleg
>
> _____________________________________________________________
> Oleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,
> Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia)
> Internet: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 19:46:50 +0400 (MSD)
> From: Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
> To: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
> Subject: [HACKERS] 6.5 cvs: views doesn't survives after pg_dump
>
> After dumping (by pg_dump) and restoring views becomes a tables
>
> Here is a simple scenario:
> 1. createdb tview
>
> 2. create table t1 (a int4, b int4);
> create view v1 as select a from t1;
>
> 3. pg_dump -z tview > tview.dump
> 4. destroydb tview
>
> createdb tview
>
> 5. psql -e tview < tview.dump
> ............................
> QUERY: COPY "t1" FROM stdin;
> CREATE RULE "_RETv1" AS ON SELECT TO "v1" WHERE DO INSTEAD SELECT "a" FROM "t1";
> QUERY: CREATE RULE "_RETv1" AS ON SELECT TO "v1" WHERE DO INSTEAD SELECT "a" FROM "t1";
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "do"
> EOF
>
> 6. psql tview
>
> tview=> \dt
> Database = tview
> +------------------+----------------------------------+----------+
> | Owner | Relation | Type |
> +------------------+----------------------------------+----------+
> | megera | t1 | table |
> | megera | v1 | table |
> +------------------+----------------------------------+----------+
>
> tview=>
>
> view t1 now becomes table v1 !
>
> Regards,
>
> Oleg
> _____________________________________________________________
> Oleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,
> Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia)
> Internet: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/
> phone: +007(095)939-16-83, +007(095)939-23-83
>
>
>
>
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