From 5a6ba62be5364dbf973fd9b8631fd60acda03440 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 17:17:34 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Document that CREATE VIEW that uses "*" for the column list
will not auto-add columns later added to the base table.
---
doc/src/sgml/ref/create_view.sgml | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_view.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_view.sgml
index dd155078111..417f8c38e7e 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_view.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_view.sgml
@@ -173,6 +173,10 @@ CREATE VIEW comedies AS
FROM films
WHERE kind = 'Comedy';
</programlisting>
+ This will create a view containing the columns that are in the
+ <literal>film</> table at the time of view creation. Though
+ <literal>*</> was used to create the view, columns added later to
+ the table will not be part of the view.
</para>
</refsect1>
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