Re: [DOCS] Partition: use triggers instead of rules - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From David Fetter
Subject Re: [DOCS] Partition: use triggers instead of rules
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Msg-id 20071128205710.GL24146@fetter.org
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In response to Re: [DOCS] Partition: use triggers instead of rules  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Re: [DOCS] Partition: use triggers instead of rules
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:53:04PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > Best practices for partitioning so far have shown that TRIGGERs
> > are better than RULEs for most cases.  Please find attached a
> > patch which reflects this.
>
> Entirely removing the example of how to do it with rules doesn't
> seem like a good idea.

It does to me.  I haven't found a case yet where rules worked even as
well as triggers.

Cheers,
David.
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