Gene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm not sure why it's detecting recursion in this case when the rule
> conditional should be false

Rules are macros, which means that expansion has to terminate
statically, not dynamically.  For the particular purpose you seem to
have here, it'd be a lot more manageable and a lot more efficient
to use a BEFORE UPDATE trigger instead of a rule.

        if new.pattern <> old.pattern then
                new.flag = false;
        end if;
        return new;

Or are you trying to change some other row than the one being updated?

                        regards, tom lane

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