Can someone comment on this?  I believe we were waiting for a comment
from Jan.

> I suggest that the CREATE RULE syntax be relaxed so that
> it is legal to have a list of SELECT commands in a rule.
> 
> I'll argue that:
>   1) The change is simple (2 lines in gram.y).  Diff is
> attached.
>   2) It breaks nothing (more things become legal)
>   3) It makes the parser agree with the published syntax,
>      which currently makes no distinction about SELECT
> commands.
>   4) It makes the language more "regular" in that SELECT
>      commands are no longer special.:
> 
> Diff is an attachment because of line-wrapping.  I'm new
> here
> so I don't know if this works.  But as I said it's only 2
> lines.
> 
> ++ kevin 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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> be grounded upon its absorption in what is
> changeless amid change" 
>    -- Alfred North Whitehead

> --- gram.y.orig	Thu May 25 15:42:17 2000
> +++ gram.y	Thu Oct 19 14:34:47 2000
> @@ -2585,7 +2585,6 @@
>  		;
>  
>  RuleActionList:  NOTHING				{ $$ = NIL; }
> -		| SelectStmt					{ $$ = lcons($1, NIL); }
>  		| RuleActionStmt				{ $$ = lcons($1, NIL); }
>  		| '[' RuleActionMulti ']'		{ $$ = $2; }
>  		| '(' RuleActionMulti ')'		{ $$ = $2; } 
> @@ -2607,6 +2606,7 @@
>  		;
>  
>  RuleActionStmt:	InsertStmt
> +		| SelectStmt
>  		| UpdateStmt
>  		| DeleteStmt
>  		| NotifyStmt


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Fri, 19 Jan 2001 22:06:56 -0500 (EST)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Rules and SELECT