Re: RETURNING and DO INSTEAD ... Intentional or not?

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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
>> All,

>> -- Make it possible to use RETURNING together with conditional DO INSTEAD
>> rules, such as for partitioning setups.
>
> Added to TODO:
>
> * Make it possible to use RETURNING together with conditional DO INSTEAD
> rules, such as for partitioning setups
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-09/msg00577.php
>

Would it make sense to expand this to something like:

Make it possible for rules to return affected tuples?

I come to this because if you use a rule to create an updateable view,
you never know how many rows the view actually updated.

Joshua D. Drake

>

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