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Re: Immutable attributes?

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On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 09:26:49PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> To protect the database from programming errors (there is a team
> working on the project and some beginners may produce bugs), I would
> like to flag some attributes as immutable, meaning non modifiable in
> an UPDATE. (Typical examples are ID or creation time.)
> 
> Currently, I use triggers:

You could use RULEs instead, but the effect would be similar.

> PostgreSQL 7.4, switching to 8.0 would be difficult.

Now is easier than later.

Cheers,
D
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