Andrew Sullivan <ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 06:20:04AM -0700, David Fetter wrote: >> There's an even better reason not to use rules: they're going away in >> a not too distant version of PostgreSQL. > Really? How? I thought views were done using rules under the hood? > Also, it'd be awfully nice if, in case rules are going away, the > documentation actually said prominently in the rules section, "Rules > are deprecated and are planned to be removed at some point in the > future." Right now, anyone coming to Postgres for the first time > could easily understand the manual to say that Postgres has this cool > feature on which they can rely. I think the true state of affairs is this: rules have a lot of surprising behaviors, and if we could think of something that works more straightforwardly, we'd love to replace them. But I think we'd have to have the "something" in place before we consider deprecating rules. At the moment we don't even have a glimmer of a design, so David's statement is many years premature. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
