Re: Rules: A Modest Proposal

2009/10/5 Dan Colish <dan(at)unencrypted(dot)org>:
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:28:13AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Dan Colish wrote:
>> > On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 09:50:18AM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> > > On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 18:24 -0700, Dan Colish wrote:
>>
>> > > >  You can definitely create updatable views using rules.
>> > >
>> > > Sure you can, but they won't work in various significant corner cases.
>> > >
>> > > Search the archives for "updatable views" for details.
>> >
>> > I don't even want updatable views!
>>
>> Why would you argue that point?  They are specified in the SQL standard
>> somewhere.
>>
>
> I do not really think updatable views are needed. Maybe when the standard was
> written things are different; I guess you're talking about 2003. Just because
> something is in a standard, doesnt mean it has to be implemented. As long as you
> don't implement something outside of the standard, I do not have an issue.

Updatable views are important for porting enterprise applications. I
thing, so it has a sense.

Regards
Pavel Stehule

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