Re: Rules: A Modest Proposal

David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Oct 4, 2009, at 1:57 PM, David Fetter wrote:
> 
> >It's less about like or dislike and more about facing up to the
> >reality that we've got a major legacy foot-gun left over from the
> >experimentation of the Berkeley days.
> 
> I think you're going to need to be a bit more concrete than that. In
> what way is it a foot-gun? What examples can you provide? What,
> exactly, are the issues?

While I don't agree with David Fetter's premise, I think rehashing how
we handle VIEWs would be a good step towards updatable views.  Right
now, the implementation of that is stalled precisely because of the rule
system.

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