Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to suggest to enhance the documentation of the CREATE VIEW
> statement.
>
> I think the fact that a "SELECT *" is internally stored as the expanded
> column list (valid at the time when the view was created) should be
> documented together with the CREATE VIEW statement. Especially because
> the example does use SELECT * to create the view.
Agreed. The attached, applied patch documents this behavior.
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+ It's impossible for everything to be true. +
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_view.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_view.sgml
index dd15507..417f8c3 100644
*** a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_view.sgml
--- b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_view.sgml
*************** CREATE VIEW comedies AS
*** 173,178 ****
--- 173,182 ----
FROM films
WHERE kind = 'Comedy';
</programlisting>
+ This will create a view containing the columns that are in the
+ <literal>film</> table at the time of view creation. Though
+ <literal>*</> was used to create the view, columns added later to
+ the table will not be part of the view.
</para>
</refsect1>