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Re: BUG #18178: New Restriction on "ON SELECT" rules on tables

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Joshua Uyehara <joshua.uyehara@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2023-11-03T15:50:58Z
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Joshua Uyehara <joshua.uyehara@gmail.com> writes:
> As far as the documentation error, on closer review, Part V, 41.2 ("Views
> and the Rules system") was updated to reflect the change, but the Reference
> entry for Create Rule in Part VI was not:

Hah!  That text is so old that it still refers to the pre-7.1 behavior
where a view really was a plain table (in the sense of having some
underlying storage).  I pushed an update.  Thanks for noting that.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Doc: update CREATE RULE ref page's hoary discussion of views.

  2. Remove logic for converting a table to a view.