Re: default values for views

Neil Conway wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:59:17 -0400 (EDT)
> "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > Neil Conway wrote:
> > > The attached patch allows views to have default values. You can't
> > > specify a default value within a CREATE VIEW statement, it must be
> > > done using ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... SET DEFAULT after the
> > > view has already been created. Most of the hard work was done by
> > > Tom Lane, I just patched pg_dump and updated the documentation.
> >
> > I am confused. I didn't think we could insert into views. Can we?
>
> No, but you can if you create a rule to handle the insertion for you
> properly.
>
> There is more discussion of this patch on -hackers, in the thread
> "rules and default values".

Oh, so somehow this patch interacts with the rule insertion code to
handle it. OK.

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