Re: UPDATE SET (a,b,c) = (SELECT ...) versus rules

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Vik Fearing <vik(dot)fearing(at)dalibo(dot)com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: UPDATE SET (a,b,c) = (SELECT ...) versus rules
Date: 2014-06-17 13:48:05
Message-ID: 20140617134805.GD18143@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2014-06-17 09:46:13 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On 2014-06-17 11:22:17 +0200, Vik Fearing wrote:
> >> On 06/17/2014 09:43 AM, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> >>> Was'nt there a plan (consensus?) about deprecating rules altogether ?
>
> >> I believe that was just for user access to them, ie CREATE RULE. I
> >> don't think there was ever question of purging them from the code base.
>
> > I don't think any such concensus has been made? I wish it were, but the
> > last discussions about it imo ended quite differently.
>
> Yeah, I don't think there's any prospect of removing them in the near
> future. We'd need a (better-designed) replacement feature first.

IMO INSTEAD triggers pretty much are that. We only need to make them
work for normal relations as well (partitioning!) and we're pretty much
there.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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