Michel Pelletier <pelletier.michel@gmail.com> writes: > I get that this is synonymous in most cases, except when there is an event > trigger for `ALTER TABLE`, it ends up firing the event trigger for the > views, and any event triggers expected to fire on `ALTER VIEW` statements > do not fire.
> Is this something we can contribute a fix for, or is this some kind of > necessary b/w compat issue that must remain?
We're not likely to change the fact that you're allowed to write ALTER TABLE for this, so if your event triggers get broken by doing that you'd best fix the event triggers.
For sure, and we're working on fixing the triggers, I should have been more clear that I'm not suggesting any changes to the server behavior, just to the dump/restore process.
I don't have any great objection to making pg_dump emit the more modern spelling (I think ... you'd need to look into pg_restore to make sure it's not assuming something in this area). But doing that won't really remove the hazard.
Agree it won't remove the hazard, but should reduce the kind of collateral damage we encountered. Will examine pg_restore as you suggested to scope the work better.