Wiebe Cazemier <halfgaar(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> which I manipulate with the view "rating_params". The delete rules on this view
> act very strangely.
The rule that actually deletes the rows from the underlying has to fire
last, since the rows are gone from the view (and hence from OLD) the
moment you delete them.
In practice, you'd be way better off using an ON DELETE trigger for
these tasks.
regards, tom lane