From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
Cc: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Rules: A Modest Proposal |
Date: | 2009-10-05 01:37:45 |
Message-ID: | 603c8f070910041837l687bf28bg3846a0ddc6c96afd@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> David E. Wheeler wrote:
>> On Oct 4, 2009, at 1:57 PM, David Fetter wrote:
>>
>> >It's less about like or dislike and more about facing up to the
>> >reality that we've got a major legacy foot-gun left over from the
>> >experimentation of the Berkeley days.
>>
>> I think you're going to need to be a bit more concrete than that. In
>> what way is it a foot-gun? What examples can you provide? What,
>> exactly, are the issues?
>
> While I don't agree with David Fetter's premise, I think rehashing how
> we handle VIEWs would be a good step towards updatable views. Right
> now, the implementation of that is stalled precisely because of the rule
> system.
This is the last I remember hearing of it, which seems to suggest that
only a week's worth of work (maybe a bit more for those of us who are
not Tom Lane) is needed:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-01/msg01746.php
But maybe you have some other thoughts?
...Robert
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