On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 04:14:00PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
> Ok, I'm wondering if this patch will cause problems locking a table
> that has had:
>
> CREATE RULE "_RETfoo" AS ON SELECT TO foo DO INSTEAD SELECT * FROM foo1;
>
> I need to be able to lock the table 'foo' exclusively while I swap
> out the underlying rule to forward to another table.
>
Yes, it would. 'foo' would be seen as view.
Okay, this gives me a reason to to do it the hard way.
I will try to add a relisview attribute to pg_class.
That way, we can differentiate between tables with rules
and things created with 'CREATE VIEW'.
Hmmm... guess I'll need to change the definition of the pg_views
view as well.
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Mark Hollomon
mhh@mindspring.com