On Nov 11, 2008, at 10:06 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> - Should this be an optional behavior? What if I don't WANT my view
> to be updateable?
That seems like a deal-breaker to me... many users could easily be
depending on views not being updateable. Views are generally always
thought of as read-only, so you should need to explicitly mark a view
as being updateable/insertable/deleteable.
It's tempting to try and use permissions to try and handle this, but
I don't think that's safe either: nothing prevents you from doing
GRANT ALL on a view with no rules, and such a view would suddenly
become updateable.
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