| From: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | bret_stern(at)machinemanagement(dot)com |
| Cc: | Don Parris <parrisdc(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Multi-Table Insert/Update Strategy - Use Functions/Procedures? |
| Date: | 2016-01-27 20:32:34 |
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Bret Stern <
bret_stern(at)machinemanagement(dot)com> wrote:
> On this track (possibly unrelated)...can a view be used as part of the
> multi table update
> Just curious
>
Never done so myself but - I believe so though doing so over a one-to-many
relationship can be tricky.
That said probably no trickier than do so via a function. In both
scenarios you need to use arrays to approximate sets of records and then
decompose the array to insert the relevant records in the "many" table.
David J.
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