Gene <genekhart@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb: > I was trying to create a rule to set a column to false whenever another column > was changed: > > CREATE RULE... > ON UPDATE TO criterion > WHERE new.pattern::text <> old.pattern::text DO UPDATE table SET flag = > false > WHERE id = _o_l_d_._i_d > > pattern | id > 12345 | 1 > > => update criterion set pattern = '12345' where id = 1; > ERROR: infinite recursion detected in rules for relation "criterion" I think, you should better use a TRIGGER and modify the NEW.flag within the Trigger. Your solution creates a new UPDATE when an UPDATE occur. Andreas -- Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. (Linus Torvalds) "If I was god, I would recompile penguin with --enable-fly." (unknow) Kaufbach, Saxony, Germany, Europe. N 51.05082°, E 13.56889°
