On 09/28/2011 08:34 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > 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 > Yoda: "Damned by faint praise, these rules are" Would this future something more likely be a totally different concept or a re-implementation? Is there a list of "gotchas" w.r.t. rules? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
