Re: BUG #5234: ALTER TABLE ... RENAME COLUMN change view definition incorrectly

Robert Haas escribió:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> > Hmm.  Cute, but I wonder why we shouldn't just be throwing an error.
> > As I said last night, the only thing I see wrong with the current
> > behavior is that the error message isn't phrased in a way that makes
> > it obvious it's the user's fault.
>
> I think the problem we're trying to solve is that the view works but
> it isn't dumpable.

So it would also be a solution that the ALTER TABLE that renamed the
column throwed an error if there's a view that requires the name.

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