On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:01:25PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Bernd Helmle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [ latest views patch ] > > This is the first time I've actually looked at this patch, and I am > dismayed. viewUpdate.c looks like nothing so much as a large program > with a small program struggling to get out. What is all the stuff about > handling multiple base rels? SQL92, at least, does not say that a join > is updatable, and AFAICT this patch is rejecting that too ... though > it's hard to tell with the conditions for allowing the join to be > updatable scattered through a lot of different functions. And some of > the code seems to be expecting multiple implicit rules and other parts > not. I get the impression that a lot of this code is left over from a > more ambitious first draft and ought to be removed in the name of > readability/maintainability.
If that code is on the right path to allowing things like updates to the many side of a join then it would be worth adding comments to that effect. Or maybe a comment referencing whatever version of the file the code was yanked out of. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
