| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
| Cc: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Rules: A Modest Proposal |
| Date: | 2009-10-05 00:54:56 |
| Message-ID: | 20091005005456.GA4977@alvh.no-ip.org |
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David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Oct 4, 2009, at 1:57 PM, David Fetter wrote:
>
> >It's less about like or dislike and more about facing up to the
> >reality that we've got a major legacy foot-gun left over from the
> >experimentation of the Berkeley days.
>
> I think you're going to need to be a bit more concrete than that. In
> what way is it a foot-gun? What examples can you provide? What,
> exactly, are the issues?
While I don't agree with David Fetter's premise, I think rehashing how
we handle VIEWs would be a good step towards updatable views. Right
now, the implementation of that is stalled precisely because of the rule
system.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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