Re: Conditional NOTIFY is not implemented

On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:30:44AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> tomas@fabula.de writes:
> > My pattern of use for ``CREATE RULE... NOTIFY...'' was [...]

> Yeah, that is the normal and recommended usage pattern for NOTIFY, so
> getting a NOTIFY when nothing actually happened is fairly harmless.
> (Undoubtedly that's why no one complained before.)
>
> Changing the rewriter to error out when it couldn't really Do The Right
> Thing seemed like a good idea at the time, but now it seems clear that
> this didn't do anything to enhance the usefulness of the system.  Unless
> someone objects, I'll change it back for 7.2.
>
>             regards, tom lane

I won't object ;-)

Thank you again
-- tomas