Ugh, I wasn't and just tried it, thanks.
I've saved comments before on pgadmin and wasn't aware it using a sql statement to save it, I thought it was local to
myenvironment.
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On Tuesday, January 12, 2021 4:17 PM, Alban Hertroys <haramrae@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12 Jan 2021, at 20:54, Alex Williams valenceshell@protonmail.com wrote:
> > Hi Ingolf,
> > For comments in views, I create a unused CTE and put my comments there, e.g.
> > WITH v_comments AS (
> > SELECT 'this is my comment' AS comment
> > )
> > Alex
>
> You do know about COMMENT ON VIEW v_comments IS ’this is my comment’, right?
>
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> > On Thursday, January 7, 2021 11:19 AM, Markhof, Ingolf ingolf.markhof@de.verizon.com wrote:
> >
> > > Hi!
> > > Switching from Oracle SLQ to PostgreSQL I am facing the issue that the SQL code the system returns when I open a
viewssource code is different from the code I entered. The code is formatted differently, comments are gone and e.g.
alltext constants got an explicit cast to ::text added. (see sample below).
> > > I want the SLQ code of my views stored as I entered it. Is there any way to achieve this? Or will I be forced to
maintainmy views SQL code outside of PostgreSQL views?
> > > Any hints welcome!
> > > Here is an example:
> > > I enter this code to define a simple view:
> > > create or replace view myview as
> > > select
> > > product_id,
> > > product_acronym
> > > from
> > > products -- my comment here
> > > where
> > > product_acronym = 'ABC'
> > > ;
> > > However, when I open the view my SQL client (DBeaver) again, this is what I get:
> > > CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW myview
> > > AS SELECT product_id,
> > >
> > > product_acronym
> > >
> > >
> > > FROM products
> > > WHERE product_acronym = 'ABC'::text;
> > > So, the formatting changed, keywords are capitalized, the comment I added in the from-part has gone and the text
constant'ABC' changed to 'ABC'::text.
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> Alban Hertroys
>
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> There is always an exception to always.