Re: [INTERFACES] Ghost insert

Thus spake Tom Lane
> "D'Arcy" "J.M." Cain <darcy(at)druid(dot)net> writes:
> > Thus spake Enrique Rodriguez Lazaro
> >> I can't do a simple 'insert' from libpq.
>
> > Just guessing here but is it possible that clientes is a view and you are
> > seeing the underlying table when you select after the insert?
>
> Oooh, good thought --- but you are explaining it backwards. If clientes
> was made with CREATE VIEW, then an INSERT into clientes would in fact
> insert data into clientes --- but you'd never see it again, because any
> SELECT from clientes would be redirected to whatever the view is of.
> (I've been burnt by that myself ;-).)

No, I think I was right but I probably used the wrong word. By "underlying"
I meant the table returned instead of clientes. I guess "redirected" would
have been a better word.

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