Re: Names of view select rules

    No problem with that. Good idea IMHO.


Jan

Tom Lane wrote:
> Currently, the name of the ON SELECT rule for a view is defined to be
>     '_RET' || viewname
> truncated if necessary to fit in a NAME.
> 
> I've just committed fixes to make rule names be per-relation instead
> of global, and it occurs to me that we could now get rid of this
> convention.  The select rule name could be the same for all views ---
> "_RETURN", say.  This would simplify life in a number of places.
> 
> A quick look at psql, pgaccess, etc suggests that a lot of places know
> that view select rule names begin with _RET, but not that many are
> dependent on the rest of it.  So I think this wouldn't break clients
> too badly.
> 
> Any thoughts pro or con?  I'm leaning towards changing it, but could be
> persuaded to leave well enough alone.
> 
>             regards, tom lane
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