Re: insert rule doesn't see id field

I'm extremely sorry about the post in this thread ! Had a brain cramp, my
appologies. Should have been Re: [SQL] SQL function parse error.
Terribly sorry again !

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Radu-Adrian Popescu
CSA, DBA, Developer
Aldratech Ltd.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Radu-Adrian Popescu" <radu.popescu@aldratech.com>
To: "Ron Peterson" <rpeterso@mtholyoke.edu>; <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: [SQL] insert rule doesn't see id field


To everyone interested, check out Tom Lane's and Bruce's comments on
pgsql-hackers:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2003-01/msg00446.php
There seems to be some consensus towards removing $ from the list of allowed
operator characters.

Regards,
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Radu-Adrian Popescu
CSA, DBA, Developer
Aldratech Ltd.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Peterson" <rpeterso@mtholyoke.edu>
To: <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: [SQL] insert rule doesn't see id field


On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:13:03PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:01:08AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > > I thought that the idea behind noup was to protect single columns from
> > > update.  However, when I apply the noup trigger as above, I can't
> > > update /any/ column.  Is this the intended behaviour?
> >
> > Idly looking at the source code for contrib/noupdate/noup.c, I don't
> > believe that it has ever worked as advertised: it seems to reject any
> > non-null value for the target column, independently of whether the
> > value is the same as before (which is what I'd have thought it should
> > do).
> >
> > Is anyone interested in fixing it?  Or should we just remove it?
> > If it's been there since 6.4 and you're the first person to try to use
> > it, as seems to be the case, then I'd have to say that it's a waste of
> > space in the distribution.
>
> I'm going to see if I can create this function.

Well, I think I've thunk something up.  Of course I'm happy to submit
my modification for distribution or ridicule, as the case may be.
Where should I submit this?

I made a function noupcols() which takes one or more column names as
arguments.  The function then creates a new tuple by getting the old
values for those columns, and then doing an SPI_modifytuple on the new
tuple using the old values for those columns.

I'm kind of flying by the seat of my pants here, so if anyone would
care to critically review my code, by all means...

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