Re: RETURNING and DO INSTEAD ... Intentional or not? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: RETURNING and DO INSTEAD ... Intentional or not?
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Msg-id 46EAB506.8010208@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: RETURNING and DO INSTEAD ... Intentional or not?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> FYI, after some tinkering around, I've found that RETURNING is 100% 
>> incompatible with any table which has conditional DO INSTEAD rules; there's 
>> just no way to make it work and return any intelligible data.  This would be 
>> a completely corner case, except that people use conditional DO INSTEAD rules
>> heavily with partitioning (and yes, real users are complaining).
> 
> Those would be real users who are not on any PG mailing list?  Cause I
> have not seen any complaints, much less any proposals for a solution...

The majority of our users do not sit on a postgresql mailing list. They
sit on php-db, hibernate, perl-dbd etc...

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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