Re: Proposal for SYNONYMS

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com
Cc: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Proposal for SYNONYMS
Date: 2006-03-10 00:39:48
Message-ID: 29031.1141951188@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> Eh? I thought that it was just syntatic sugar that was missing. I've
> built lots of updatable views manually; I don't see what's difficult about
> it.

I think you'll find that corner cases like inserts involving nextval()
don't work real well with a rule-based updatable view. But perhaps I'm
just scarred by the many complaints we've had about rules. With a plain
unconditional DO INSTEAD rule it might be OK ...

regards, tom lane

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