Re: 'on insert do instead' rule with a where clause responds 'INSERT 0 0'

Julius Stroffek <Julius(dot)Stroffek(at)sun(dot)com> writes:
> Attached is the example script 'repro.sql' which creates two relations
> tab1 and tab2. It also creates a rule on tab1 which simply does insert
> into tab2. The insert statement into tab1 is executed afterwards. It
> responds with 'INSERT 0 1'. However if I would create the same rule with
> the where clause the response to the same insert statement is 'INSERT 0
> 0'. The output of the script executed through psql is in 'repro.out'.

> Is this a bug?

No. See
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/rules-status.html
and note that you don't have an unconditional INSTEAD rule.

regards, tom lane