Re: RETURNING and DO INSTEAD ... Intentional or not?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: RETURNING and DO INSTEAD ... Intentional or not?
Date: 2007-09-14 04:31:35
Message-ID: 20806.1189744295@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> FYI, after some tinkering around, I've found that RETURNING is 100%
> incompatible with any table which has conditional DO INSTEAD rules; there's
> just no way to make it work and return any intelligible data. This would be
> a completely corner case, except that people use conditional DO INSTEAD rules
> heavily with partitioning (and yes, real users are complaining).

Those would be real users who are not on any PG mailing list? Cause I
have not seen any complaints, much less any proposals for a solution...

regards, tom lane

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