Re: AW: The lightbulb just went on...

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
Cc: "'Michael J Schout'" <mschout(at)gkg(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: AW: The lightbulb just went on...
Date: 2000-10-19 14:11:58
Message-ID: 8784.971964718@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at> writes:
>> SELECT session_data, id
>> FROM sessions
>> WHERE id = ?
>> FOR UPDATE
>>
>> I think part of my problem might be that sessions is a view
>> and not a table,

> Did you create an on update do instead rule ?
> This is currently not done automatically for views,
> thus views without additional "create rule"s are select only.
> But, I am wondering whether the "for update" places the correct lock ?

Hmm, good point! I'm not sure what "select for update" on a view ought
to do, but I am pretty sure that the code will not do anything useful
or sensible for this case...

regards, tom lane

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