On Friday 10 November 2006 18:39, Matt Miller wrote:
> I'm converting a large Oracle DB that uses hundreds of updatable views.
> ora2pg is quite useful, but it looks like it doesn't do anything to
> create the rules that are needed to make the views updatable. Under
> Oracle simple views like "select * from the_table" are automatically
> updatable, so the Oracle schema doesn't have any triggers or the like
> that I could import as PG rules.
>
You might be able to use the information in pg_depend to write a script to
generate the rules for any view that only has a single table in it's
dependency tree. (I've really no idea if this would work, so if you try it
and it succeeds please post a note or some code back to the group!)
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Robert Treat
Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
