Re: Conditional rule?

From: Itai Zukerman <zukerman(at)math-hat(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Conditional rule?
Date: 2000-07-28 11:04:07
Message-ID: 87zon2tt20.fsf@matt.w80.math-hat.com
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> > CREATE RULE newsrule AS ON INSERT TO news
> > WHERE new.publishtime NOTNULL DO
> > INSERT INTO news_unpublished VALUES (new.id);
>
> The following happens:
> rules=# insert into news (title, time) values('Hei', now());
> ERROR: <unnamed> referential integrity violation - key referenced from
> news_unpublished not found in news

I noticed this, too.

More generally, I've found that whereas rules initially looked like a
great thing to use, in practice I have really no idea what they're
going to do. And I find their description in the programmer's guide
confusing. Is there any better rules tutorial out there?

-itai

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