rule as on insert to view with multiple fk referencing the same table

Hi,

I have a schema which simplifies to the following:

create table a (id serial not null primary key, data int);
create table b (id serial not null primary key, data int\
    ref1 int references a not null, ref2 int references a not null,\
    ref3 int references a);
create view vw (data_a, data_b1, data_b2, data_b3) as select \
    (b.data as data_b, a1.data as data_a1, a2.data as data_a2,\
    a3.data as data_a3) from b, a a1, a a2, a a3 where b.ref1=a1.id\
    and b.ref2=a2.id and b.ref3=a3.id;

And now I want to create an insert rule into vw with all my foreign keys
properly set. I can't think of anything better that doing first the
three inserts into a and then use nextval()-1, nextval()-2 etc for the
fk values, but it looks really ugly (even though I could wrap up within
a BEGIN(...)COMMIT).

What's the 'canonical' way to do this?

tks
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pica