On 06/17/2014 11:22 AM, Vik Fearing wrote:
> On 06/17/2014 09:43 AM, Hannu Krosing wrote:
>> On 06/14/2014 09:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> As I mentioned awhile ago, I'm thinking about implementing the
>>>> SQL-standard construct
>>>>
>>>> UPDATE foo SET ..., (a,b,...) = (SELECT x,y,...), ...
>>>>
>>>> I've run into a rather nasty problem, which is how does this interact
>>>> with expansion of NEW references in ON UPDATE rules?
>> Was'nt there a plan (consensus?) about deprecating rules altogether ?
> I believe that was just for user access to them, ie CREATE RULE. I
> don't think there was ever question of purging them from the code base.
But are there any cases, where UPDATE rules are created behind the scenes ?
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