Re: UNION within VIEW workarounds?

On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 07:27:08PM -0800, Joel Burton wrote:
> > Given UNIONs are not implemented within views in 7.0.3, what are
> the
> > generally suggested work-arounds, if any?
>
> Ick. We just did the full SELECTs all the time. A pain.
>
> FYI, this is fixed in 7.1. Beta Real Soon Now.

    Out of curiosity, what is the advantage, other then simplification
of the query itself, of using a view over a straight select?

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