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From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Docs <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Partition: use triggers instead of rules
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:57:10 -0800
Message-ID: <20071128205710.GL24146@fetter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21686.1196283184@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <20071128202615.GG24146@fetter.org>
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:53:04PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > Best practices for partitioning so far have shown that TRIGGERs
> > are better than RULEs for most cases.  Please find attached a
> > patch which reflects this.
> 
> Entirely removing the example of how to do it with rules doesn't
> seem like a good idea.

It does to me.  I haven't found a case yet where rules worked even as
well as triggers.

Cheers,
David.
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