From: | Sean Reifschneider <jafo(at)tummy(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Docs patch to note that rules only get run once per query. |
Date: | 2003-04-13 23:43:49 |
Message-ID: | 20030413234349.GF7507@tummy.com |
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I've made the following patch to the current CVS docs. This is to
explain some confusion I ran into when trying to use rules. After
reading the documentation on rules, I was expecting my rule to get run
at the end of a query where I deleted multiple rows, not after the first
row was deleted, then not any further.
I think the below text makes it more clear that this may happen and is
not a bug.
Sean
--- rules.sgml.old 2003-04-13 16:58:27.000000000 -0600
+++ rules.sgml 2003-04-13 17:26:53.000000000 -0600
@@ -32,6 +32,15 @@
linkend="ONG90">.
</para>
+<Note>
+ <Para>
+ Note that rules are only invoked once per query. This may be a problem
+ in instances where the rule is updating a table based on another table's
+ contents, and you do a delete or update that changes multiple rows. In
+ this case, you will have to use a trigger.
+ </Para>
+</Note>
+
<Sect1 id="querytree">
<Title>The Query Tree</Title>
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