I see now that this has been applied. Thanks for pointing it out.RuleActionStmt: SelectStmt | InsertStmt
| UpdateStmt | DeleteStmt | NotifyStmt ;
> I suggest that the CREATE RULE syntax be relaxed so that
> it is legal to have a list of SELECT commands in a rule.
>
> I'll argue that:
> 1) The change is simple (2 lines in gram.y). Diff is
> attached.
> 2) It breaks nothing (more things become legal)
> 3) It makes the parser agree with the published syntax,
> which currently makes no distinction about SELECT
> commands.
> 4) It makes the language more "regular" in that SELECT
> commands are no longer special.:
>
> Diff is an attachment because of line-wrapping. I'm new
> here
> so I don't know if this works. But as I said it's only 2
> lines.
>
> ++ kevin
>
>
>
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> derived from the direct intuition that life can
> be grounded upon its absorption in what is
> changeless amid change"
> -- Alfred North Whitehead
> --- gram.y.orig Thu May 25 15:42:17 2000
> +++ gram.y Thu Oct 19 14:34:47 2000
> @@ -2585,7 +2585,6 @@
> ;
>
> RuleActionList: NOTHING { $$ = NIL; }
> - | SelectStmt { $$ = lcons($1, NIL); }
> | RuleActionStmt { $$ = lcons($1, NIL); }
> | '[' RuleActionMulti ']' { $$ = $2; }
> | '(' RuleActionMulti ')' { $$ = $2; }
> @@ -2607,6 +2606,7 @@
> ;
>
> RuleActionStmt: InsertStmt
> + | SelectStmt
> | UpdateStmt
> | DeleteStmt
> | NotifyStmt
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