Re: Rules/Trigges Trade-offs

My book has a section on that:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/awbook.html

Triggers are mostly for testing/modifying the row being
inserted/updated, while rules are better for affecting other rows or
other tables.


Jean-Luc Lachance wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> Is there a guideline on the use of rules compared to triggers when both
> can be use to achieve the same result?
> 
> JLL
> 
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