Re: Updateable views...

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> Eric D Nielsen <nielsene@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > In either case is this a place where "exceeding" the spec would be a good 
> > thing or a bad thing?
> 
> Unless there is an obvious definition of what updating a join means
> (obvious not only to the implementor, but to the user) I think this
> is dangerous territory.

Joins are a *BIG* part of the reason people want updateable views. In every
single case that I updated a view it was a join. Just being able to update
subsets of tables or restricted sets of columns is really a fairly trivial use
of a powerful feature.

In Oracle the constraint is fairly straightforward (at least to describe): 
for each column you're updating the primary key of the table it came from has
to be present in the view.


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greg