Re: Deprecating RULES

On 15 October 2012 11:41, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> Please can anyone show me the SQL for a rule that cannot be written as
>> a view or a trigger? I do not believe such a thing exists and I will
>> provide free beer to the first person that can prove me wrong.
>
> Being written as a view doesn't help you because views use rules. I
> repeat, the very fact that we need rules to implement views prove
> rules are necessary for some purposes.

No, it just means there is some aspect of similar underlying infrastructure.

Denial of free beer looks like proof to me...

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