Re: Proposed relaxation of CREATE RULE syntax

Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@pacbell.net> writes:
> > I suggest that the CREATE RULE syntax be relaxed so that
> > it is legal to have a list of SELECT commands in a rule.
> 
> I don't have any strong objection to this myself, but it would probably
> be a good idea to wait and see what Jan thinks of it before we change
> it.  (Kevin, Jan Wieck is the main developer of our rules stuff, and
> is more likely to know about any gotchas in the idea than the rest of
> us.)  I think Jan is still in Poland someplace, but hopefully he'll
> be back in touch before long.
> 
> >   2) It breaks nothing (more things become legal)
> 
> Given our earlier discussions, it might only be that it exposes things
> that don't work :-(.
> 
>                         regards, tom lane

Of course, wait for the guy in charge of this area.  It's
not urgent for
me anyway, because I'm going to be working with a variant
pretty soon
anyhow, to support my research. (I'm gonna have to do things
in the
backend that you would not want distributed).

++ kevin


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