Re: [HACKERS] Updating column on row update

"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Yes, I'd expect the user to custom-code it, because it's not clear
>> exactly which properties the script would be depending on and which
>> ones it's okay to allow to vary. To take just one example, is it
>> okay if the object ownership is different from current user?

> Yeah, that's an area which I figured would require some discussion.
> The best behavior isn't immediately clear to me in that regard. I
> didn't figure that arriving at some decision on that was necessarily
> an insurmountable obstacle.

The reason a script-driven solution seems attractive is exactly that
there doesn't seem to be a good one-size-fits-all behavior for complex
objects.

> There was, up-thread, discussion by multiple people of the desire to
> have CINE for tables. Andrew's example was specifically about an
> alternative way of spelling that. This branch of the thread has been
> all about exactly that. (Well, at least in my head.)

I thought the thread was about CREATE LANGUAGE. If you want to discuss
CINE in general it would probably be appropriate to start a different
thread about that.

regards, tom lane