On Monday 21 November 2005 08:05 pm, Jerry Sievers wrote: > Chris Kratz <chris.kratz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Hello All, > > > > We have finally tracked down a bug in our application to a rewrite rule > > on a table. In essence, the rewrite rule in question logs any inserts to > > another table. This works correctly in all cases except where an > > "except" clause is used in the insert statement. In this case, the rows > > are inserted into the primary table as expected, but the rule either does > > not fire, or fires in such a way that nothing is placed in the changes > > table. > > You must be referring to something like; > > insert into foo > select * > from sometable > except > select * > from someothertable > ; > > If there's an EXCEPT clause on INSERT, I've never seen it. > > Perhaps you should post your insert query and your rule declaration. > > > As a side note, is there a way to see the final sql after all "rewrite" > > rules have been processed? It might help us understand what is going on. > > Not SQL but see config setting; > > debug_print_rewritten Hello Jerry, The insert statement is included in the test case. Here it is again. insert into test1 select id,data from test2 except select id,data from test1; The goal of the except was to only insert items from test2 that don't already exist in test1. Thanks for the hint on debug_print_rewritten. I'll look into that. -Chris -- Chris Kratz