From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
Cc: Jonah H. Harris <jonah.harris@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Docs <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Partition: use triggers instead of rules
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:41:54 -0800
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:55:53 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:58:26PM -0500, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> >> On Nov 28, 2007 3:53 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >>> Entirely removing the example of how to do it with rules doesn't
> >>> seem like a good idea.
> >>
> >> Agreed.
>
> > Do you have an example of one use case where using RULEs rather than
> > TRIGGERs is a good idea?
>
> The argument I made for keeping the example around is not dependent on
> the assumption that using a rule is a good idea. It's dependent on
> the established fact that we have recommended that in prior releases,
> and therefore people are going to be seeing that construct in real
> databases.
And they could refer back to the older version of the documentation for
it. In fact, we should mention that in the patch:
<note><para>If you have an partitioning setup that uses rules please
refer to the 8.2 documentation on partitioning</para></note>
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
> regards, tom lane
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