Jan Wieck wrote: > > Hiroshi Inoue wrote: > > Tom Lane wrote: > > > > > > > What should the backends return for complicated rewrites ? > > And how should/could clients handle the results ? > > It doesn't seem easy to me and it seems a flaw of rule > > system. Honestly I don't think that the psqlodbc driver > > can guarantee to handle such cases properly. > > However both Ron's case and Michael's one are ordinary > > updatable views. If we can't handle the case properly, > > we could never recommend users to use (updatable) views. > > The fact that our rule system is that powerful that you can > have multi-action rules is a flaw ... awe.
There's always a plus and a minus. For generic applications the powerfulness is a nuisance in a sense because it is difficult for them to understand the intension of complicated rewrites( and triggers as you pointed out). I don't think every application can handle every case. The main point may be how the applications can judge if they can handle individual cases. regards, Hiroshi Inoue http://w2422.nsk.ne.jp/~inoue/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]