Re: rule system oddity - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jaime Casanova
Subject Re: rule system oddity
Date
Msg-id 20050105165213.19005.qmail@web50008.mail.yahoo.com
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In response to Re: rule system oddity  (Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>)
List pgsql-hackers
 --- Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> escribió: 
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:51:54PM -0600, Jaime
> Casanova wrote:
> 
> > create view vfoo as select oid, * from foo;
> > ...
> > create rule insrule as on insert to vfoo
> > do instead
> > insert into foo(id, name) values (new.id,
> new.name);
> > ...
> > insert into vfoo values(1, 'test1');
> > ERROR:  invalid input syntax for integer: "test1"
> >
> > it seems like it's trying to insert into the oid
> > column is that the intended behaviour? or is it a
> bug?
> > (i think is the latter).
> 
> vfoo has three fields: oid, id, and name.  If you
> INSERT without a
> column list, the values are assigned to the columns
> in order: oid=1,
> id='test1', name=NULL.  Are you suggesting that the
> insert should
> ignore oid since its source is a system column?  I'm
> not sure such
> behavior would be desirable because of the
> inconsistency it would
> introduce: sometimes values would be assigned to the
> displayed
> columns in order, but other times one or more of
> those columns might
> be implicitly skipped.
> 
ahhh... you are right i have to use named column list
to do that insert.

regards,
Jaime Casanova

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