Re: Feedback from LinuxWorld, London

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 07:18:01PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 05:05:46PM -0700, elein wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 05:42:31PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > > On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, David Fetter wrote:
> > >
> > > >In this case, it might be easier to make a writeable VIEW with two
> > > >tables underneath and an appropriate call to ARRAY() and maybe to
> > > >array_to_string()
> > >
> > > Is there any work being done on UPDATEABLE VIEWs?  I found, at one point,
> > > a 'work around' for it, but just wondering if there is any work being done
> > > on a more 'native' method ...
> >
> > We have updateable views if you write the rules for them.
> > A default updateable view could only be accurate all the
> > time if it only contained a single table reference.  Our
>
> Well, you can create multi-table views that are also updateable.  IIRC
> the restriction is that joins must all be inner joins and you can't be
> doing any kind of group by. I know the DB2 docs talk about this and I'm
> pretty sure Oracle's do as well.

You can start adding the "yeah, buts" which only makes it more
confusing.  That is why I said "accurate ALL the time".

--elein

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