I did not even think about a table view. I use them very rarely. I also don’t do update, insert or delete on the view I have.
Thanks a lot. That was really helpful.
Lance
From: Steve Crawford [mailto:scrawford@pinpointresearch.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 9:40 AM
To: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
Cc: Campbell, Lance <lance@illinois.edu>; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Table symbolic link
As others mentioned, you can create a view. But depending on they types of updates you do, other views that already exist on that table, triggers, and the version of PostgreSQL among other issues it may not be a viable option.
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 7:37 AM, Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> wrote:
On 05/18/2016 10:31 AM, Campbell, Lance wrote:
> The better strategy would be to rename the table to the new name and add
> a symbolic table that link to the new table name. Then as I make
> changes to each application I can point them to the new name. Maybe in
> a year I could delete the symbolic table name.
>
> Is this possible? I have not seen a symbolic table name feature but I
> thought I would ask.
See CREATE VIEW:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/interactive/sql-createview.html
HTH,
Joe
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