I have an existing postgis datastore, defined as a featuretype in Geoserver. I would like to subdivide this datastore using views.
I have no problems creating the view, or adding the view to geometry_columns table – I followed the instructions found on http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOSDOC/PostGIS+DataStore to the letter.
However, I cannot see the view in the ‘FeatureType’ dropdown menu from Config>Data>FeatureType>New from Geoserver’s web interface (I can see the datastore that the view originated from though). I end up having to add the new featuretype manually, but it’s preferable to use the web interface.
Is there a reason why I cannot see the view in the dropdown menu? The documentation indicates that I should – is there something that I may have missed?