> You and Josh seem to be strong proponents of rules for reasons other > than "I just don't want to break applications". That's not too many > to ask both of you: can you itemize your use cases and how important > you feel they are?
Well, my main issue is actually that I don't want to break people's applications. I seldom use RULEs myself. The one area where I do is handling bulk loading for partitioning or other table redirection. For this case, rules are much, much, much (as in 100X) faster than row-at-a-time triggers. Could statement triggers and MERGE be improved to replace this? Pretty much certainly. Have they been? No. Also, I'll point out that surveying -hackers for feature usage is a pretty skewed group. A bunch of the people on this list (maybe most of them) don't develop applications -- some never have. If we think surveying usage affects our plans for deprecation, then we ought to survey a less select group of users. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
