| From: | "Nigel J(dot) Andrews" <nandrews(at)investsystems(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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| To: | "Agrawal, Manish" <MAgrawal(at)coba(dot)usf(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | 'Frankie Lam' <frankie(at)ucr(dot)com(dot)hk>, "'pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PgAdmin problem |
| Date: | 2003-02-19 13:59:36 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.21.0302191356020.2991-100000@ponder.fairway2k.co.uk |
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On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Agrawal, Manish wrote:
> 3. Also, updatable views would make Postgresql so much easier to use.
>
> The reason I ask is that if that were the case, PostgreSQL would be
> enormously popular beyond expectations. At the very least, introductory
> database courses in business schools could so easily use PostgreSQL instead
> of MS Access.
Views are updateable. You need to
CREATE RULE blah AS ON UPDATE TO myview DO INSTEAD
UPDATE mytable SET acol = NEW.acol
for example.
I think there are other issues with updateable views from MSAccess though.
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Nigel J. Andrews
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