having to do with machinery: a mechanical failure. 2. being a machine; operated by machinery: a mechanical toy. 3. caused by or derived from machinery: mechanical propulsion.
ERROR: cannot alter type of a column used by a view or rule DETAIL: rule _RETURN on view v_change_me depends on column too_short. Though PostgreSQL tells us which view and column prompted this error, thatâs the last favor it provides.
If the view contains joins between multiple tables, you can only insert and update one table in the view, and you can't delete rows. You can't directly modify data in views based on union queries.