Re: Deprecating RULES

On Monday, October 15, 2012 03:07:21 PM Simon Riggs wrote:
> On 15 October 2012 11:41, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> >> Please can anyone show me the SQL for a rule that cannot be written as
> >> a view or a trigger? I do not believe such a thing exists and I will
> >> provide free beer to the first person that can prove me wrong.
> > 
> > Being written as a view doesn't help you because views use rules. I
> > repeat, the very fact that we need rules to implement views prove
> > rules are necessary for some purposes.
> 
> No, it just means there is some aspect of similar underlying
> infrastructure.
> 
> Denial of free beer looks like proof to me...

Well, didn't Tom already mention AFTER ... FOR EACH ROW triggers being 
problematic because of the in-memory queue?

Greetings,

Andres
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