Commit 5bd91e3a authored by Peter Eisentraut's avatar Peter Eisentraut

doc: Improve CREATE VIEW / WITH documentation

Similar to 590eb0c14eebe834f716721a9659b77899cf3084, remove the options
list from the synopsis and elaborate in the main description.
parent f7102b04
......@@ -25,11 +25,6 @@ CREATE [ OR REPLACE ] [ TEMP | TEMPORARY ] [ RECURSIVE ] VIEW <replaceable class
[ WITH ( <replaceable class="PARAMETER">view_option_name</replaceable> [= <replaceable class="PARAMETER">view_option_value</replaceable>] [, ... ] ) ]
AS <replaceable class="PARAMETER">query</replaceable>
[ WITH [ CASCADED | LOCAL ] CHECK OPTION ]
<phrase>where <replaceable class="parameter">view_option_name</replaceable> can be one of:</phrase>
security_barrier [ <replaceable class="parameter">boolean</replaceable> ]
check_option [ <replaceable class="parameter">text</replaceable> (<literal>local</literal> or <literal>cascaded</literal>) ]
</synopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
......@@ -131,24 +126,24 @@ CREATE VIEW <replaceable>name</> AS WITH RECURSIVE <replaceable>name</> (<replac
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><literal>security_barrier(boolean)</literal></term>
<term><literal>check_option</literal> (<type>string</type>)</term>
<listitem>
<para>
This should be used if the view is intended to provide row-level
security. See <xref linkend="rules-privileges"> for full details.
This parameter may be either <literal>local</> or
<literal>cascaded</>, and is equivalent to specifying
<literal>WITH [ CASCADED | LOCAL ] CHECK OPTION</> (see below).
This option can be changed on existing views using <xref
linkend="sql-alterview">.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><literal>check_option(text)</literal></term>
<term><literal>security_barrier</literal> (<type>string</type>)</term>
<listitem>
<para>
This parameter may be either <literal>local</> or
<literal>cascaded</>, and is equivalent to specifying
<literal>WITH [ CASCADED | LOCAL ] CHECK OPTION</> (see below).
This option can be changed on existing views using <xref
linkend="sql-alterview">.
This should be used if the view is intended to provide row-level
security. See <xref linkend="rules-privileges"> for full details.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
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