Re: Rules: A Modest Proposal

On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 11:42:45AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> 
> > There are already patches to deal with the first, at least for the
> > kinds of VIEWs where this can be deduced automatically, and people are
> > starting to take on the second.
> 
> How would we deal with VIEWs which weren't simple enough for automated
> updating, then?
> 
> I don't think that removing a major feature, one which some users have
> written applications around, is even feasible.
> 
> What would be the benefit of this radical proposal?
> 
> --Josh Berkus
> 

When you speak of writing to a view, what do you mean exactly? Are we saying
refresh a view or update the parent tables of a view?

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--Dan