Re: Rules

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> For 7.3, we should either fix psql or remove the option to use square
>> brackets in rule action lists.  Comments anyone?

> I'd certainly be for removing this since no one could ever really have
> used this, but this feature seems so unusual, perhaps there was a reason
> for it?

My guess is that the syntax predates psql, or at least predates psql's
current ideas about splitting up queries.  It's possible that someone
out there is entering square-bracket-delimited rule lists via a non-psql
interface, but I doubt it.  I'd vote for elimination of the syntax,
I think.

            regards, tom lane