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

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
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 13:46:13
Message-ID: 16542.1403012773@sss.pgh.pa.us
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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.

regards, tom lane

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