| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Deprecating RULES |
| Date: | 2012-10-15 13:07:21 |
| Message-ID: | CA+U5nMKT17ysFr3aiX15-3FUfMpxDsCZBQx8v17oHOp5WpxkSg@mail.gmail.com |
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On 15 October 2012 11:41, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> Please can anyone show me the SQL for a rule that cannot be written as
>> a view or a trigger? I do not believe such a thing exists and I will
>> provide free beer to the first person that can prove me wrong.
>
> Being written as a view doesn't help you because views use rules. I
> repeat, the very fact that we need rules to implement views prove
> rules are necessary for some purposes.
No, it just means there is some aspect of similar underlying infrastructure.
Denial of free beer looks like proof to me...
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Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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