Re: Deprecating RULES - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Deprecating RULES
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Msg-id CA+TgmoanoX4toVOO9pwFrBMK7h6CAFN27oVb5naPSvZhf6XVNA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Deprecating RULES  (Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 12 October 2012 20:01, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> We know that rules are a bad fit for
>> almost everything, *but we can't assume that our users all know that
>> when it isn't even documented*.
>
> I agree that we should document that rules are something that should
> almost certainly be avoided. Up until recently, the advice surrounding
> commit_delay in the docs said something practically indistinguishable
> from "you don't want to use this". Why not do the same for rules?

I completely agree.

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Robert Haas
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