Re: BUG #4808: Rules on system catalogs are allowed but not executed.

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Ian Turner" <ian.turner@deshaw.com> writes:
>> It appears that (unlike with triggers), PostgreSQL will accept the creation
>> of rules on system catalogs, but these rules are not actually executed.
>
> They're not honored by internal catalog updates, no.

Shouldn't their creation be prevented in the first place, like triggers?


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