Here is the more recent email I have on this feature work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bernd Helmle wrote: > --On Freitag, September 01, 2006 11:41:16 -0400 Tom Lane > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > So in other words, views on serial columns don't work? I don't think > > that's going to be acceptable. > > > > They work in such a case that someone isn't allowed to put a volatile > function in an update query.... > > > > > Not really worse than what the rewriter is doing already --- in fact, > > I think it's isomorphic to what would happen to the rule qual > > expressions in your existing patch. > > > > Currently you don't have to rewrite the rule conditions itself every > time you apply them to the query tree since they are stored in pg_rewrite > matching all various (reversed) varattno's, resno's and whatever. > If i understand correctly you need to do that with constraints every time > you fire an update query on a view for each underlying relation.... > > > > > I'm about to propose that we should try to go beta next week (see > > forthcoming message). If you can strip down your patch to avoid the > > multi-eval problems in the next couple of days, I'm still willing to > > Depends on how many days "couple of days" are.....if you mean the next > three days > then definitely not, since i'm afk for the whole upcoming weekend. Bad > timing, but > it's not deferrable.... :( > > > consider it, but at the moment I'm assuming that it needs to be held > > for 8.3. > > Well, i'll see what i can do next week....it's a little bit disappointing > that these problems > raises so late, but that's no one's fault since there are many side effects > of the rewriting > system involved.... > > Many thanks for your comments. > > Bernd > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
