On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:16:45PM +0530, Ranjeeth Nagarajan wrote: > Hello All, > > I have the below query regarding Rules in PostgreSQL: > > If I have a table which has multiple rules defined, are the rules > executed in the order in which they are defined? > > Or are they executed in some random order? They're executed in alphabetical order, to the extent that that is deterministic, which is not very, and that's not even the wackiest thing about them. If you have any alternative of any nature, do NOT use rules. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@xxxxxxxxx iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general