On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 11:42:18AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > >> Rules are extremely slow in comparisons and not anywhere near as
> > >> flexible. As I said up post yesterday... they work well in the basic
> > >> partitioning configuration but anything else they are extremely deficient.
> > >
> > > I think that the above claim is exceedingly narrow-minded.
> >
> > We are talking about partitioning. It is supposed to be narrow-minded.
>
> Sure, but look at all the confusion we have had just on this list about
> it. We had better state why triggers should be used in place of rules
> _for_ _partitioning_ or that confusion will continue.
Please find enclosed a patch with use cases for each.
Cheers,
David.
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