Re: [HACKERS] RULE (and ALTER TABLE) questions

> But when doing that at the table creation time, then the table can
> actually
> be defined as a view on storage table and rules for insert update and
> delete
> be defined for this view that do the actual data manipulation on the
> storage table.

That's IMHO a too specific case to do it generally with the
rule system. Should be some kind of constraint handled by
the parser in putting an UPPER() func node around the
targetlist expression.

There could be more general support implemented, in that a
user can allways tell that a custom function should be called
with the result of the TLE-expr before the value is dropped
into the tuple on INSERT/UPDATE.

Jan

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