Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> We probably ought to have something in there to throw an error ...
> Probably not for rules in general, but we shouldn't let people turn
> tables into views if they are involved in table inheritance, as either
> a parent or a child.
Well, what I had in mind was disallowing any rules to be attached to an
inheritance child, because they won't get expanded. However, you have a
point I guess: someone could conceivably want to have a rule that only
takes effect when a child is accessed directly.
regards, tom lane