Tom Lane wrote:
>>So, the actual delete should be done after all the rules. And even if
>>it does delete before anything else, that does not explain why "step2"
>>is not inserted into the debuglog table.
>
>
> Because the rule converts those inserts into, effectively,
>
> INSERT INTO debuglog SELECT ... WHERE EXISTS(some matching OLD row);
>
> and there are no longer any matching OLD rows in the view. (If it
> didn't act that way then the INSERTs would execute even for a "DELETE
> WHERE false". If you find any of this surprising or not what you want,
> you should probably be using triggers not rules.)
I've got a late addition question about this.
Is this behaviour also present in Postgres 7? I am continuing on work that was
done by someone else in version 7. He said that what he made worked fine and
tested OK, but with what you told me in mind, what he made can't possibly work
(and it didn't when I tested it, and I have postgres 8).