Tom Lane wrote:
> weigelt@metux.de writes:
>> i'd like to write an rule which fills out some empty attrs on
>> insert (w/ data from other given attrs).
>
> You'd be better off doing this with a BEFORE INSERT trigger.
The only way to do it with rules would be to create a view over the
basetable, create an insert rule over the view and then have the
application doing the insert into the view instead. So "better" could be
considered an understatement :-)
Jan
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