Re: RULE and more than 10 rewrites.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Vegard Munthe <vegard(at)copyleft(dot)no>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: RULE and more than 10 rewrites.
Date: 2003-01-22 21:40:29
Message-ID: 24403.1043271629@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Vegard Munthe <vegard(at)copyleft(dot)no> writes:
> I have a RULE that does 18 rewrites. This is a RULE that saves me alot of
> work when rewriting some software, but the RULE always fails since PGSQL
> seems tp think 10 or more rewrites constitutes a loop.
> "ERROR: query rewritten 10 times, may contain cycles"
> Is there any way I can set the rewrite limit to more than 10, say 100,
> which would be more of a safeguard number for loops?

Well, you could alter the value by hand in src/backend/rewrite/rewriteHandler.c
... or you could upgrade to 7.3, wherein the default limit is 100.

regards, tom lane

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