From 548512ad0397b1e6fe1b079496882b924bbdd745 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 23:49:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Document column-name-list option of CREATE VIEW ... which has
been there awhile, but the man page didn't know it.
---
doc/src/sgml/ref/create_view.sgml | 17 ++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_view.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_view.sgml
index 8132e41d425..f13dee1dd42 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_view.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_view.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_view.sgml,v 1.10 2001/01/13 23:58:55 petere Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_view.sgml,v 1.11 2001/08/10 23:49:20 tgl Exp $
Postgres documentation
-->
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ Postgres documentation
<date>2000-03-25</date>
</refsynopsisdivinfo>
<synopsis>
-CREATE VIEW <replaceable class="PARAMETER">view</replaceable> AS SELECT <replaceable class="PARAMETER">query</replaceable>
+CREATE VIEW <replaceable class="PARAMETER">view</replaceable> [ ( <replaceable
+class="PARAMETER">column name list</replaceable> ) ] AS SELECT <replaceable class="PARAMETER">query</replaceable>
</synopsis>
<refsect2 id="R2-SQL-CREATEVIEW-1">
@@ -44,6 +45,16 @@ CREATE VIEW <replaceable class="PARAMETER">view</replaceable> AS SELECT <replace
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><replaceable class="parameter">column name list</replaceable></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ An optional list of names to be used for columns of the view.
+ If given, these names override the column names that would be
+ deduced from the SQL query.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><replaceable class="parameter">query</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
@@ -124,7 +135,7 @@ CREATE VIEW vista AS SELECT text 'Hello World'
</title>
<para>
<command>CREATE VIEW</command> will define a view of a table.
- This view is not physically materialized. Specifically, a query
+ The view is not physically materialized. Instead, a query
rewrite retrieve rule is automatically generated to support
retrieve operations on views.
</para>
--
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