Re: [GENERAL] Divert triggers on materialized views

2017-10-19 Thread Brent Wood
.org [pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] on behalf of Ewen McNeill [pg...@ewen.mcneill.gen.nz] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 13:34 To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL] Divert triggers on materialized views PostgreSQL VIEWs have a useful feature where INSTEAD OF triggers can b

[GENERAL] Divert triggers on materialized views

2017-10-17 Thread Ewen McNeill
PostgreSQL VIEWs have a useful feature where INSTEAD OF triggers can be defined to divert INSERT/DELETE/UPDATE actions into an underlying table (or other location), creating the effect of a "writeable view" (and I believe in more recent PostgreSQL versions this is pretty much automatic).