Re: Deleting From View?

Jeanna Geier <jgeier(at)apt-cafm(dot)com> schrieb:

>
> Hello List!
>
> I'm having an issue with my program; it's inserting into one record into a
> view (named 'measurement') twice ,which it's not supposed to be - so, I'm

You can't insert data into a view. My guess: you have a RULE for this
VIEW to handle INSERTs.

> attempting to put a delete statement in the code to remove one of these
> records, but am getting an error. (Will track down the real insert issue
> ...
> And when I run my program I get an exception: cannot delete from a view.
>
> Is there anyway I can do this in my code?

You need a RULE for DELETE, too. Take a look at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/rules-update.html

Andreas
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