Re: 9.3 Beta1 status report

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:12:58AM +0100, Dean Rasheed wrote:
> On 21 April 2013 06:02, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > I am not sure if Tom shared yet, but we are planning to package 9.3
> > beta1 on April 29, with a release on May 2. Those dates might change,
> > but that is the current plan. I have completed a draft 9.3 release
> > notes, which you can view here:
> >
> > http://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/release-9-3.html
> >
> > I will be working on polishing them for the next ten days, so any
> > feedback, patches, or commits are welcome. I still need to add lots of
> > SGML markup.
> >
>
> E.1.3.4.4. VIEWs:
>
> * Make simple views auto-updatable (Dean Rasheed)
>
> INSTEAD rules are still available for complex views.
>
>
> I think this should refer to INSTEAD OF triggers for complex views,
> since that is now the recommended way to implement updatable views.
>
> I think it should also expand a little on what "simple" means in this
> context, without going into all the gory details, and mention that
> there is a behaviour change. So perhaps something like this for the
> second paragraph:
>
> Simple views that select some or all columns from a single base table
> are now updatable by default. More complex views can be made updatable
> using INSTEAD OF triggers or INSTEAD rules.

I like it! Done.

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