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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2002-03-10 06:00:15 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2002-03-10 06:00:15 +0000
commitee27436f6cbedf69b2da7c6fc69548232b476833 (patch)
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parentf20509551dd1ddccd84beb2bc582fa26ed431432 (diff)
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Disable brackets in multi-statement rules, as discussed.
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-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/ref/create_rule.sgml22
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_rule.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_rule.sgml
index 6a03cfbd661..ab1a8eeba15 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_rule.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_rule.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_rule.sgml,v 1.31 2002/01/24 18:28:15 tgl Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_rule.sgml,v 1.32 2002/03/10 06:00:13 momjian Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@ NOTHING
<replaceable class="parameter">query</replaceable>
|
( <replaceable class="parameter">query</replaceable> ; <replaceable class="parameter">query</replaceable> ... )
-|
-[ <replaceable class="parameter">query</replaceable> ; <replaceable class="parameter">query</replaceable> ... ]
</synopsis>
<refsect2 id="R2-SQL-CREATERULE-1">
@@ -177,15 +175,15 @@ CREATE
</para>
<para>
- The <replaceable class="parameter">action</replaceable> part of the rule
- can consist of one or more queries. To write multiple queries, surround
- them with either parentheses or square brackets. Such queries will be
- performed in the specified order (whereas there are no guarantees about
- the execution order of multiple rules for an object). The
- <replaceable class="parameter">action</replaceable> can also be NOTHING
- indicating no action. Thus, a DO INSTEAD NOTHING rule suppresses the
- original query from executing (when its condition is true); a DO NOTHING
- rule is useless.
+ The <replaceable class="parameter">action</replaceable> part of the
+ rule can consist of one or more queries. To write multiple queries,
+ surround them with parentheses. Such queries will be performed in the
+ specified order (whereas there are no guarantees about the execution
+ order of multiple rules for an object). The <replaceable
+ class="parameter">action</replaceable> can also be NOTHING indicating
+ no action. Thus, a DO INSTEAD NOTHING rule suppresses the original
+ query from executing (when its condition is true); a DO NOTHING rule
+ is useless.
</para>
<para>