Hello,
when I create a view, e.g.:
CREATE VIEW my_view
AS
SELECT col1,
col2,
col3
FROM mytable;
And I later retrieve the view's source using "SELECT definition FROM pg_view",
the source I supplied has been altered by Postgres.
The formatting has been removed completely and PG actually re-wrote the query.
For the above example I would get:
SELECT mytable.col1, mytable.col2, mytable.col3 FROM mytable
(all in one line)
Is there a way to tell PG _not_ to alter my SQL, so I can retrieve the same (or
at least a very similar) version of the original statement?
For procedures this is already the case, so I wonder why the view code is
altered that much.
Regards
Thomas