Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> Bruce, Richard,
>
> > Triggers are mostly for testing/modifying the row being
> > inserted/updated, while rules are better for affecting other rows or
> > other tables.
>
> Hmmm. Thought that there were also some other criteria:
>
> 1) Rules can't use indexes to do their processing, so Rules which query large
> secondary tables can be a bad idea (maybe this has changed?)
I don't think this is true. Rewrite is before optimizer so it should be
optimized just the same.
>
> 2) Only Rules can "DO INSTEAD"; thus, only Rules are good for defining
> Read/Write views.
True.
> 3) There are no AFTER Rules, making, for example, a rule with a table check on
> the new data impractical, so you'd want to use Triggers or Constraints
We have changed ordering in 7.3 where I think INSERT rules are _after_
the insert.
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