Re: Read-Only Views?

Yep.  by default views are not updateable in postgresql.  However, they
can be made updateable by triggers.  Note that not all views are
inherently updateable, just the simplest.  for instance how would you
update:

create view bigview as select g1.id, t1.f1*t2.f2, t1.f3/t3.f4 from tabl1
t1, table2 t2, table3 t3 where t1.id=t2.t1id and t1.id=t3.t1id

?

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Naomi Walker wrote:

>
> I noticed in some (older) documentation that views were read-only?  Is this
> still the case?
>
> Naomi
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