Re: Rule trouble (looks to me exactly like the example)

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:42:18AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Frank Joerdens <frank(at)joerdens(dot)de> writes:
> >> What's happening is that "new.id" is effectively still NULL at the point
> >> where the rule is processed, so the rule WHERE condition fails. I'm not
> >> sure why you're bothering with that WHERE condition anyway ...
>
> > Without the WHERE condition, all rows are affected by the update, and
> > not just the newly inserted one.
>
> I was speaking of the WHERE new.id > 0 part.

Oh yes, that's silly indeed. I just put it there to make the query look like
the example.

> However, given that you
> want to affect only the newly-inserted row, ISTM you'd be a lot better
> off with a trigger instead of a rule.

I'll give that a try!

Thanks, Frank