Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> While I'm looking at this ... what is the rationale for treating rewrite
> rules as members of extensions, ie, why does the patch touch
> rewriteDefine.c? ISTM a rule is a property of a table and could not
> sensibly be an independent member of an extension. If there is a use
> for that, why are table constraints and triggers not given the same
> treatment?
I remember thinking I needed to do that for CREATE VIEW support while
discovering PostgreSQL internals.
Regards.
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