Re: Emulating trigger BEFORE SELECT behavior

On 04/18/2013 07:02 AM, Atri Sharma wrote:
>> How about a RULE:
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>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/sql-createrule.html
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>> Rules can be tricky, so I would at least skim through:
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>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/rules.html
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> Thanks.
>
> It looks like that it is another way to create a view, which is
> probably not I want(I need to store some data per SELECT query in
> another table).

My mistake, forgot ON SELECT only supports DO INSTEAD.

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> One way I was thinking of was creating an updatable view, which is
> initialized to NULL. As SELECT queries take place, I can update the
> view to include the new rows.
>
> What say?

So what would you run the SELECT against, another view or table?

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> Atri
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> Regards,
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> Atri
> l'apprenant
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