From: "D'Arcy" "J.M." Cain <darcy@druid.net>
To: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
Cc: darcy@druid.net
Cc: enrique@xpress.es
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Ghost insert
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:00:49 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <m121Bbd-0000daC@druid.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6506.945963375@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Thus spake Tom Lane
> "D'Arcy" "J.M." Cain <darcy@druid.net> writes:
> > Thus spake Enrique Rodriguez Lazaro
> >> I can't do a simple 'insert' from libpq.
>
> > Just guessing here but is it possible that clientes is a view and you are
> > seeing the underlying table when you select after the insert?
>
> Oooh, good thought --- but you are explaining it backwards. If clientes
> was made with CREATE VIEW, then an INSERT into clientes would in fact
> insert data into clientes --- but you'd never see it again, because any
> SELECT from clientes would be redirected to whatever the view is of.
> (I've been burnt by that myself ;-).)
No, I think I was right but I probably used the wrong word. By "underlying"
I meant the table returned instead of clientes. I guess "redirected" would
have been a better word.
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