Wow... I actully know the answer to this question :)
psql declares the the type to be view? if the relkind is a relation and the
relhasrules = true in pg_class for that entry. I will pull the latest source
and see if I can come up with a better way for determining the type tomorrow, if
someone else doesn't beat me to it :)
-Ryan
> I just began to learn rules with 6.5 and notice:
> test=> \dt
> Database = test
> +------------------+----------------------------------+----------+
> | Owner | Relation | Type |
> +------------------+----------------------------------+----------+
> | megera | access_log | table |
> | megera | hits | table |
> | megera | junk_qwerty | table |
> +------------------+----------------------------------+----------+
>
> test=> create rule log_hits as on update to hits do instead insert into hits
values ( NEW.msg_id, 1);
> CREATE
> test=> \dt
> Database = test
> +------------------+----------------------------------+----------+
> | Owner | Relation | Type |
> +------------------+----------------------------------+----------+
> | megera | access_log | table |
> | megera | hits | view? |
> | megera | junk_qwerty | table |
> +------------------+----------------------------------+----------+
>
> Table hits now becomes view ?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Oleg
>
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