Re: Rules: A Modest Proposal

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:28:13AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Dan Colish wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 09:50:18AM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 18:24 -0700, Dan Colish wrote:
> 
> > > >  You can definitely create updatable views using rules.
> > > 
> > > Sure you can, but they won't work in various significant corner cases.
> > > 
> > > Search the archives for "updatable views" for details.
> > 
> > I don't even want updatable views!
> 
> Why would you argue that point?  They are specified in the SQL
> standard somewhere.

Feature T111, described in sections 15.9, 15.12 and 15.15 of SQL:2008,
in particular.

Cheers,
David.
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