From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [PATCHES] Partition: use triggers instead of rules |
Date: | 2007-11-29 06:36:41 |
Message-ID: | 20071129063641.GV24146@fetter.org |
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On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:55:53AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:58:26PM -0500, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> >> On Nov 28, 2007 3:53 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >>> Entirely removing the example of how to do it with rules doesn't
> >>> seem like a good idea.
> >>
> >> Agreed.
>
> > Do you have an example of one use case where using RULEs rather
> > than TRIGGERs is a good idea?
>
> The argument I made for keeping the example around is not dependent
> on the assumption that using a rule is a good idea. It's dependent
> on the established fact that we have recommended that in prior
> releases, and therefore people are going to be seeing that construct
> in real databases.
We've corrected mistakes in the manual before :)
Cheers,
David.
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