"johnlumby@xxxxxxxxxxx" <johnlumby@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > But I suppose that my next question, given what you both say about the > RULE system being a dead-end, is whether there is any likelihood of > supporting an INSTEAD OF trigger on a view at statement level? Maybe > that stands more chance of going somewhere? Perhaps, but I don't know of anyone working on it. IIRC, the row-level-only restriction dates from before we had implemented transition tables, so that at the time there was nothing very meaningful that a statement-level trigger could do. Maybe that problem has gone away, though I've not thought about it very hard. regards, tom lane