+1. Can you talk at our next meeting? -- Patrick
On Mar 20, 2012, at 3:43 PM, Guyren Howe <[email protected]> wrote: > Postgres has a feature called Rules. Rules are somewhat like triggers, except > that instead of running as rows are written to the database, Rules are run > once when a query is submitted to the database, and can rewrite or add to the > query. > > You can use them to make arbitrarily complex writable views, for example. And > they're generally considerably faster than doing the same thing with triggers. > > I've been writing some rules recently and am pretty pleased with the results. > I could do a briefish (15 or 20 mins) presentation about how rules work and > an example of their use at the next meeting, if anyone is interested. > > We're also using hstore, which is a feature in Postgres that lets you have a > key-value store as the value of a field. I could talk about that also or > instead. > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
