inserting via "on insert" rule

From: Andreas Fromm <Andreas(dot)Fromm(at)physik(dot)uni-erlangen(dot)de>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: inserting via "on insert" rule
Date: 2003-09-01 20:09:45
Message-ID: 3F53A789.8060200@physik.uni-erlangen.de
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Hi,

I have a table, say "person", where I store all the information of the
people I have in my files. I have a subgroup of people, say "users",
which I want to store on the same table "persons" by imposing some
restricitons on some columns.

I was thinking of defining a view "users" over "persons" which would let
me retrive the list of useres. But How would I implement the rule for
insertiung users? I tryed the following but NEW is not known where I
want to use it:

CREATE VIEW users AS
SELECT * FROM persons WHERE is_user(person.id) = TRUE;

CREATE RULE insert_on_users AS ON INSERT
TO users DO INSTEAD
INSERT INTO persons SELECT * FROM NEW;

The other thing I don't know is how to enforce the aditional constraints
that qualify as user when inserting to users. Of course I could do it on
the application side, but I would like to have it on the database too.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Regards,

Andreas Fromm

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