Psql doesn't allow multiple action rules

Hi,

    now  I'm  really  sure that at least only a few ppl might use
    the current rule system.

    Psql cannot send the queries for DEFINE  RULE  with  multiple
    actions  to  the  backend. For this feature, the single colon
    separated statements are enclosed in []'s. But  psql  doesn't
    handle  []'s  and sends down the query at the first occurence
    of a colon. And a colon cannot be escaped in  psql,  it  must
    occur in a literal string.

    The question is now, should we tell psql that []'s have to be
    treated like ()'s or should we change the  syntax  of  CREATE
    RULE in the backends parser from [] to ()?


Jan

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