Oracle FAQ | Your Portal to the Oracle Knowledge Grid |
![]() |
![]() |
Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re: MODIFY Materialized View Definition without dropping it (or the MLog) after base table alter?
On 11/28/06, Alberto Dell'Era <alberto.dellera_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think there's a misunderstanding here, I was just asking to Chris
> whether the new column, that has to be added on the base table,
> possibly with a default value, has to be propagated to the MV also (so
> with the same value) or not.
>
> Eg
> old mv : create materialized view as select a from t_at_dblink
> say you "alter table t add (new_column int default 42)"
> has the mv to be logically modified to
> create materialized view as select a, new_column from t_at_dblink
> or does it stay the same, ignoring new_column ?
>
>
Ah, I see.
If that were the case, there's little else to do.
Adding a column to the table does not invalidate any of the objects used for the materialized view, and it will still work properly.
-- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Tue Nov 28 2006 - 19:33:44 CST
![]() |
![]() |