CREATE RULE with WHERE clause

CREATE RULE rule_role_sul AS
ON SELECT TO t1 WHERE roles = 'role_sul'
DO INSTEAD
SELECT field1, field2 FROM t2;

CREATE RULE rule_role_sul AS
ON SELECT TO t1 WHERE roles = 'role_norte'
DO INSTEAD
SELECT field3, field4 FROM t2;

From: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/sql-createrule.html
...
WHERE condition
Any SQL conditional expression (returning boolean). The condition expression may not refer to any
tables except NEW and OLD, and may not contain aggregate functions.
...

This statement to me implies that only ON {INSERT | UPDATE | DELETE } actions can use the WHERE
syntax since only inserts, updates, and deletes product the NEW.* and OLD.* tables.

Also, NEW.* and OLD.* only apply to a single tuple in the view that is being changed. So I do not
think you can not use the where syntax in your query since it does not and cannot reference a NEW
or OLD tuple.

Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.

On Jun 5, 2007, at 8:11 , Ranieri Mazili wrote:

CREATE RULE rule_role_sul AS
ON SELECT TO t1 WHERE roles = 'role_sul'
DO INSTEAD SELECT field1, field2 FROM t2;

CREATE RULE rule_role_sul AS
ON SELECT TO t1 WHERE roles = 'role_norte'
DO INSTEAD SELECT field3, field4 FROM t2;

I don't believe you can include a WHERE clause like this. From the
documentation[1]:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/rules-views.html#RULES-
SELECT

Currently, there can be only one action in an ON SELECT rule, and
it must be an unconditional SELECT action that is INSTEAD. This
restriction was required to make rules safe enough to open them for
ordinary users, and it restricts ON SELECT rules to act like views.

You can use views instead (which are implemented using the rule
system), but I'm not sure how you would handle it in this case. I
believe you'd have to implement two views:

CREATE VIEW rule_role_sul AS
SELECT field1, field2
FROM t2
WHERE roles = 'role_sul';

CREATE VIEW rule_role_norte AS
SELECT field3, field4
FROM t2
WHERE roles = 'role_norte';

Hope this helps.

Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net