Sounds like fun. +1 X
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Patrick Crowley <[email protected]>wrote: > +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 > -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
