On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:55:53AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:58:26PM -0500, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> >> On Nov 28, 2007 3:53 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >>> Entirely removing the example of how to do it with rules doesn't
> >>> seem like a good idea.
> >>
> >> Agreed.
>
> > Do you have an example of one use case where using RULEs rather
> > than TRIGGERs is a good idea?
>
> The argument I made for keeping the example around is not dependent
> on the assumption that using a rule is a good idea. It's dependent
> on the established fact that we have recommended that in prior
> releases, and therefore people are going to be seeing that construct
> in real databases.
We've corrected mistakes in the manual before :)
Cheers,
David.
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