Re: Feature request: drop rules

On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:12:37 +0100, Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 21 July 2010 14:06, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:04:09 +0100, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com>
wrote:
>>>> On 21 July 2010 10:45, Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 21 July 2010 10:38, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>
>> wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:23:33 +0100, Thom Brown
<thombrown@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 21 July 2010 10:03, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:43:33 +0100, Thom Brown
>> <thombrown@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> I noticed you can't drop rules from the GUI.  Could this be
>>>>>>>>> added?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It's already available. I see it, and I can drop a rule.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hmm... then it might be my version.  I'm using 1.12.0 beta 3 rev
>>>>>>> 8448.
>>>>>>> (see attached)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You also don't have the right to create a rule. Are you connected
>> with
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> superuser? If not, try with this. And what's your release of
>>>>>> PostgreSQL?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, I'm connected as a superuser, and created the rule as the
>>>>> superuser too.  I can manually drop it.  I've tested this using
>>>>> PostgreSQL 8.3.1, 8.4.4 and 9.0 beta 3.
>>>>>
>>>>> If I use pgAdmin III 1.10.3, I get the drop option. (image attached)
>>>>>
>>>>> Thom
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So did someone accidently tear out some code to make pgAdmin think
>>>> rules can't be dropped?  I'm unable to confirm whether this happens
in
>>>> 1.12.0 beta 1 and 2.  But it doesn't seem to matter whether I'm an
>>>> ordinary user or a superuser.
>>>
>>> Can't see anything obvious. I'm poking around in the debugger now...
>>
>> Works for me with PostgreSQL 9.0 beta 3 and pgAdmin 1.12 beta 3.
>>
>
> That's odd then.  What if you use the same DDL as myself:
>
> CREATE TABLE entries
> (
>   id serial NOT NULL,
>   username text,
>   firstname text,
>   lastname text,
>   signedup timestamp without time zone
> )
> WITH (
>   OIDS=FALSE
> );
> ALTER TABLE entries OWNER TO postgres;
>
> CREATE TABLE texts
> (
>   title text NOT NULL,
>   a_text text,
>   CONSTRAINT pk_test_title PRIMARY KEY (title)
> )
> WITH (
>   OIDS=FALSE
> );
> ALTER TABLE texts OWNER TO postgres;
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE RULE insert_test AS
>     ON INSERT TO entries
>    WHERE new.id = 1 DO INSTEAD  INSERT INTO texts (title, a_text)
>   VALUES ('moo'::text, 'bark'::text);
>
> And this is on Windows XP SP3.
>

Tried it. Still works for me. I'm on Linux, but I don't think it is the
issue :)


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