Re: pg_dump: CREATE TABLE + CREATE RULE vs. relreplident

>>>>> "Marko" == Marko Tiikkaja <marko@joh.to> writes:
Marko> Hi,
Marko> My colleague Per Lejontand brought to my attention that whenMarko> dumping views with circular dependencies from
apostgres versionMarko> older than 9.4 using a recent pg_dump, the SQL looks somethingMarko> like the following:
 
Marko>   create table qwr();Marko>   create rule "_RETURN" as on select to qwr do instead select;

I've wondered for a while whether this wouldn't have been better handled
as:

create view qwr(colnames...) as select null::type1, null::type2, ...;
/* ... */
create or replace view qwr as ...;

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Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)