Re: Rules: A Modest Proposal - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: Rules: A Modest Proposal
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Msg-id 20091004192739.GH4964@fetter.org
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In response to Re: Rules: A Modest Proposal  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Rules: A Modest Proposal
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On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 08:48:15PM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 2009/10/4 David Fetter <david@fetter.org>:
> > Folks,
> >
> > At the moment, user-accessible RULEs have, as far as I know, just two
> > sane uses:
> >
> > * Writing to VIEWs
> > * Routing writes to partitions
> 
> somebody use it as instead triggers.

Some people also shoot themselves in the foot.  They're mostly a
foot-gun.

> And I am sure, so there are people, who use it for writable views.

That *is* the first case I mentioned.  Your point is?

Cheers,
David.
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