Re: Proposal for SYNONYMS - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Proposal for SYNONYMS
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Msg-id 29031.1141951188@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Proposal for SYNONYMS  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> Eh?  I thought that it was just syntatic sugar that was missing.   I've 
> built lots of updatable views manually; I don't see what's difficult about 
> it.

I think you'll find that corner cases like inserts involving nextval()
don't work real well with a rule-based updatable view.  But perhaps I'm
just scarred by the many complaints we've had about rules.  With a plain
unconditional DO INSTEAD rule it might be OK ...
        regards, tom lane


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