> and a dump that orders the two views arbitrarily. We can certainly add
> code to do something different, but are there any real-world cases where
> this is needed? The above example seems more than slightly made-up.
> The views aren't actually functional anyway (trying to use either would
> result in an "infinite recursion" error). Can you show me a non-broken
> situation where pg_dump needs to resort to view shells?
Well then shouldn't we just ban you from creating a view that creates a
circular dependency?
Thinks... How about if the views were using each others 'table type' to
do something? Although you cannot change the return type definition can
you?
Hmmm.
>>Also shouldn't we really separate out the 'can modify catalogs manually'
>>privilege from the 'superuser' privilege?
>
>
> See pg_shadow.usecatupd. This could stand to be better supported maybe
> (like with ALTER USER support)?
Sounds like this should be a TODO...
Chris