Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>Andreas Fromm writes:
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>>I was thinking of defining a view "users" over "persons" which would let
>>me retrive the list of useres. But How would I implement the rule for
>>insertiung users? I tryed the following but NEW is not known where I
>>want to use it:
>>
>>CREATE VIEW users AS
>> SELECT * FROM persons WHERE is_user(person.id) = TRUE;
>>
>>CREATE RULE insert_on_users AS ON INSERT
>> TO users DO INSTEAD
>> INSERT INTO persons SELECT * FROM NEW;
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>>
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>You can write
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>... DO INSTEAD INSERT INTO persons VALUES (NEW.col1, NEW.col2, ...);
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Yes, but the advantage of the select would be that I could do a SELECT
.. FROM .. WHERE , or how can I perform a checking of the data before
insertion?
Andreas
