Re: Thoughts about updateable views

From: Yann Michel <yann-postgresql(at)spline(dot)de>
To: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
Cc: Jaime Casanova <systemguards(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Thoughts about updateable views
Date: 2004-12-22 13:01:49
Message-ID: 20041222130149.GA28011@zong.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de
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Hi,

On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:41:40AM +0000, Richard Huxton wrote:
> UNION etc doesn't necessarily mean you can't update, so long as the
> underlying table/key can be identified.

I think you mean UNION ALL, i.e. the set addition, don't you?
Otherwise UNION (wothout ALL) is kind of a aggregation due to it only
adds a row once to the resulting set wheter it is found twice or not.
Therefore any updates are not possible.

Regards,
Yann

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