Re: Rules/Trigges Trade-offs

No, the rule will affect all the rows using one query.

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Jean-Luc Lachance wrote:
> Thanks for the info.
>
> Do you mean that if an update affects more than one row I should use
> triggers because the rules will be executed only once?
>
> JLL
>
>
> Richard Huxton wrote:
> >
> > On Friday 06 Dec 2002 4:03 pm, Jean-Luc Lachance wrote:
> > > Hi all!
> > >
> > > Is there a guideline on the use of rules compared to triggers when both
> > > can be use to achieve the same result?
> >
> > If I can use rules I do. Rules rewrite the query so are processed once,
> > whereas triggers get processed for every row.
> > --
> > Richard Huxton
>
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