Re: Continuous inserts...

Jan Wieck <janwieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
>     I haven't looked at the code, but pg_class only has a boolean
>     telling if a class has rules or not. Could it be that  adding
>     more  rules  (or  dropping just a few instead of all) doesn't
>     update the pg_class tuple, thus the syscache  for  the  table
>     isn't  invalidated and other backends continue to use the old
>     information instead of rescanning pg_rewrite?

This is done correctly in current sources --- see
setRelhasrulesInRelation().  However I recall having dorked with that
code not long ago, and I forget what it looked like before.  Perhaps
7.0.* is broken in this respect?  Would think people would have noticed,
though.
        regards, tom lane