Developer performs query on a view when just viewing the code

[coniq]

Hello,

when we want to view the code of a view, PLSQL-Developer seems to perform a select on the view (as seen in Sessions->SQLText), which can take a long time depending on the SQL-Statement. Why is this query necessary?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Marco Kalter]

This query is not executed. It is merely described (parsed) to get the column list.