On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> writes:
> > CREATE VIEW test AS ...
> > CREATE RULE test_insert AS
> > ON INSERT TO test
> > DO ...
> > INSERT INTO test VALUES (1, 'one', 'onemore');
> > ERROR: Cannot insert into a view without an appropriate rule
>
> > What am I doing wrong here? Is there a bug?
>
> Make that "ON INSERT DO INSTEAD". As coded, the rule leaves the
> original insertion into the view still active.
Ah, I see! My model of how this was working was wrong.
> Perhaps the error message could be phrased better --- any thoughts?
Maybe a message that says something along the lines of "cannot insert
into views; you need to override this behaviour with a rule"? Also, some
examples in the manual would be helpful.
cjs
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