Rule rewrite to possible union?

From: Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com>
To: pgsql-sql <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Rule rewrite to possible union?
Date: 2007-12-06 22:03:22
Message-ID: CD8629AA-978A-4DC0-946F-5AF3451CADC1@myemma.com
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Here's what I'd like to happen, but I'm not seeing how it can be done.

Say we have this simple table:

CREATE TABLE foo (
id integer,
foo varchar
);

and then many tables along these lines:

CREATE TABLE ud1_foo (LIKE foo);
CREATE TABLE ud2_foo (LIKE foo);

What I'd like is to do is select against foo and if there is an id in
the where clause equal to 1 or 2 add a union with the appropriate
table. I could easily do this at the application level, but this is
for a migration (the ud tables are going away) and I'd like to
minimize the number of transient application code changes wherever
possible. Is there any way I can make this happen?

Erik Jones

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