Can someone comment on this? I believe we were waiting for a comment from Jan. > I suggest that the CREATE RULE syntax be relaxed so that > it is legal to have a list of SELECT commands in a rule. > > I'll argue that: > 1) The change is simple (2 lines in gram.y). Diff is > attached. > 2) It breaks nothing (more things become legal) > 3) It makes the parser agree with the published syntax, > which currently makes no distinction about SELECT > commands. > 4) It makes the language more "regular" in that SELECT > commands are no longer special.: > > Diff is an attachment because of line-wrapping. I'm new > here > so I don't know if this works. But as I said it's only 2 > lines. > > ++ kevin > > > > --- > Kevin O'Gorman (805) 650-6274 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Permanent e-mail forwarder: > mailto:Kevin.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED] > At school: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~kogorman/index.html > Web: http://trixie.kosman.via.ayuda.com/~kevin/index.html > > "There is a freedom lying beyond circumstance, > derived from the direct intuition that life can > be grounded upon its absorption in what is > changeless amid change" > -- Alfred North Whitehead > --- gram.y.orig Thu May 25 15:42:17 2000 > +++ gram.y Thu Oct 19 14:34:47 2000 > @@ -2585,7 +2585,6 @@ > ; > > RuleActionList: NOTHING { $$ = NIL; } > - | SelectStmt { $$ = lcons($1, NIL); >} > | RuleActionStmt { $$ = lcons($1, NIL); >} > | '[' RuleActionMulti ']' { $$ = $2; } > | '(' RuleActionMulti ')' { $$ = $2; } > @@ -2607,6 +2606,7 @@ > ; > > RuleActionStmt: InsertStmt > + | SelectStmt > | UpdateStmt > | DeleteStmt > | NotifyStmt -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026
