Re: features required for SQL 92 conformance - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: features required for SQL 92 conformance
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Msg-id 200402261750.11958.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: features required for SQL 92 conformance  (Troels Arvin <troels@arvin.dk>)
Responses Re: features required for SQL 92 conformance  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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Troels,

> I'm thinking: Updatable views. As far as I know, SQL-92 has updatable
> views in the sense that views deriving from only one base table should be
> updatable (as long as the view construction makes it possible for the DBMS
> to deduct where to make changes in the base table). Sure, PostgreSQL has
> rules, but that hardly qualifies as real support for updatable views.

Damn, yeah, you're right.    Neil was going to code something so that "WITH
UPDATE" would automatically translate into the creation of 2-3 rules.    But
he got distracted ...

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-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco


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