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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Ghost insert
In-Reply-To: <6506.945963375@sss.pgh.pa.us> from Tom Lane at "Dec 23,
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From: "D'Arcy" "J.M." Cain <darcy@druid.net>
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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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