Re: A problem in inheritance

On Jun 20, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Talha Khan wrote:
> THE ACTUAL TEST:
>
>   DROP RULE account_login_no_update ON account_login;
>
>
>   UPDATE account_login set originating_source = 'xxx';
>
>   Now the update should not effect the child table but it does,
> evident
>   from the output of the following query:

That's because you dropped the rule that would have affected that
query. Remember that rules effectively work on the query strings
themselves, so to impact that update you'd have to have a rule on
account_login. No rule on a child table will matter.
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