"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> 'K, that makes it workable ... final question (I hope!) ... RULEs vs
> TRIGGERs? I ended up doing it as a RULE, since I could do it without a
> function ... but is there a reason why that is a Bad Idea? Or in a case
> like this, it doesn't really matter?
A lot of people have found that rules don't behave quite the way they
want, particularly with regard to things like the number of times that
side-effects happen. Better test it out.
regards, tom lane