Chapter 13 of the documentation on Rules versus Triggers says in part
"On the other hand a trigger that is fired on INSERT on a view can do the same as a
rule, put the data somewhere else and suppress the insert in the view."
However, it does not appear to be possible to set a trigger on a view,
I have successfully built a pdf version of the 7.4 docs. While openjade
still core dumps I was able to use plain jade instead. It took nearly ten
days of continuous processing, but it finally spit out something useable.
http://www.ejurka.com/pgsql/docs/
Kris Jurka
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