"Jeff Boes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > CREATE FUNCTION bar(foo) RETURNS TEXT AS > 'SELECT $1.status || ''_'' || $1.name;' > LANGUAGE 'sql'; > and then change the last line of the rule to > NOTIFY bar(new); > but no luck. AFAIK the only way to do NOTIFY with a computed name is to write a function in plpgsql or pltcl that computes a string 'NOTIFY whatever' and then EXECUTEs that string. There's no equivalent functionality in SQL-language functions. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl