pg_get_viewdef

Reconstructs the underlying SELECT command for a view or materialized view. (This is a decompiled reconstruction, not the original text of the command.)

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Definition PG 18

Reconstructs the underlying SELECT command for a view or materialized view. (This is a decompiled reconstruction, not the original text of the command.)

Signatures and overloads

pg_get_viewdef ( view oid [, pretty boolean] ) → text → text

Reconstructs the underlying SELECT command for a view or materialized view. (This is a decompiled reconstruction, not the original text of the command.)

pg_get_viewdef ( view oid, wrap_column integer ) → text → text

Reconstructs the underlying SELECT command for a view or materialized view. (This is a decompiled reconstruction, not the original text of the command.) In this form of the function, pretty-printing is always enabled, and long lines are wrapped to try to keep them shorter than the specified number of columns.

pg_get_viewdef ( view text [, pretty boolean] ) → text → text

Reconstructs the underlying SELECT command for a view or materialized view, working from a textual name for the view rather than its OID. (This is deprecated; use the OID variant instead.)

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