Re: Updateable views...

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 10:39, Eric D Nielsen wrote:
> > Gavin Sherry  writes:
> > > I haven't had time to look into it further, but it occurs to me that
> > > handling views which rely on joins would be far from trivial.
> > 
> > Views containing joins would not be updatable; problem solved. 
> 
> I see how that is what the spec says, but aren't the majority of joins that
> people use/want to update a join of some type?  I thought that SQL99 allowed
> updating view created by joins.
> 
> In either case is this a place where "exceeding" the spec would be a good 
> thing or a bad thing?

Lets try to meet the spec first, then debate about whether extending it
is a good or bad thing :)

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Rod Taylor 

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