Re: Rules: A Modest Proposal

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Rules: A Modest Proposal
Date: 2009-10-05 06:51:29
Message-ID: 1254725489.25576.3.camel@fsopti579.F-Secure.com
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On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 20:54 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> While I don't agree with David Fetter's premise, I think rehashing how
> we handle VIEWs would be a good step towards updatable views. Right
> now, the implementation of that is stalled precisely because of the rule
> system.

The way forward with updatable views is triggers on views. I was going
to write something about that in the future. I haven't worked out all
the details.

But the select part of views will still need to be done with rules.

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