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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2011-02-01 17:17:34 -0500
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2011-02-01 17:17:34 -0500
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Document that CREATE VIEW that uses "*" for the column list will not
auto-add columns later added to the base table.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_view.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_view.sgml
index dd155078111..417f8c38e7e 100644
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+++ 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>