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Re: UPDATE SET (a,b,c) = (SELECT ...) versus rules

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@dalibo.com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2014-06-17T13:46:13Z
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Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2014-06-17 11:22:17 +0200, Vik Fearing wrote:
>> On 06/17/2014 09:43 AM, Hannu Krosing wrote:
>>> Was'nt there a plan (consensus?) about deprecating rules altogether ?

>> I believe that was just for user access to them, ie CREATE RULE.  I
>> don't think there was ever question of purging them from the code base.

> I don't think any such concensus has been made? I wish it were, but the
> last discussions about it imo ended quite differently.

Yeah, I don't think there's any prospect of removing them in the near
future.  We'd need a (better-designed) replacement feature first.

			regards, tom lane