On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 17:07 -0400, A.M. wrote: > Is there a technical limitation which prevents DO from being used in rules or am I missing something with this? > > CREATE RULE test_update AS ON UPDATE TO test DO INSTEAD DO $$ > BEGIN; > RAISE NOTICE 'hello'; > END; > $$; > > Cheers, > M >From the docs here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/sql-createrule.html I see: "Valid commands are SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, or NOTIFY." And I assume that DO is a separate command that is not valid for a rule such as this. As a workaround, you can make a named function and do "SELECT myfunction()" as the INSTEAD clause. Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general