argument as a 'regclass' value instead of a text string. The frontend
conversion of text string to pg_class OID is now encapsulated as an
implicitly-invocable coercion from text to regclass. This provides
backwards compatibility to the old behavior when the sequence argument
is explicitly typed as 'text'. When the argument is just an unadorned
literal string, it will be taken as 'regclass', which means that the
stored representation will be an OID. This solves longstanding problems
with renaming sequences that are referenced in default expressions, as
well as new-in-8.1 problems with renaming such sequences' schemas or
moving them to another schema. All per recent discussion.
Along the way, fix some rather serious problems in dbmirror's support
for mirroring sequence operations (int4 vs int8 confusion for instance).
@ -1335,10 +1335,10 @@ SELECT tablename, rulename, definition FROM pg_rules
rtest_nothn1 | rtest_nothn_r2 | CREATE RULE rtest_nothn_r2 AS ON INSERT TO rtest_nothn1 WHERE ((new.a >= 30) AND (new.a < 40)) DO INSTEAD NOTHING;
rtest_nothn1 | rtest_nothn_r2 | CREATE RULE rtest_nothn_r2 AS ON INSERT TO rtest_nothn1 WHERE ((new.a >= 30) AND (new.a < 40)) DO INSTEAD NOTHING;
rtest_nothn2 | rtest_nothn_r3 | CREATE RULE rtest_nothn_r3 AS ON INSERT TO rtest_nothn2 WHERE (new.a >= 100) DO INSTEAD INSERT INTO rtest_nothn3 (a, b) VALUES (new.a, new.b);
rtest_nothn2 | rtest_nothn_r3 | CREATE RULE rtest_nothn_r3 AS ON INSERT TO rtest_nothn2 WHERE (new.a >= 100) DO INSTEAD INSERT INTO rtest_nothn3 (a, b) VALUES (new.a, new.b);
rtest_nothn2 | rtest_nothn_r4 | CREATE RULE rtest_nothn_r4 AS ON INSERT TO rtest_nothn2 DO INSTEAD NOTHING;
rtest_nothn2 | rtest_nothn_r4 | CREATE RULE rtest_nothn_r4 AS ON INSERT TO rtest_nothn2 DO INSTEAD NOTHING;
rtest_order1 | rtest_order_r1 | CREATE RULE rtest_order_r1 AS ON INSERT TO rtest_order1 DO INSTEAD INSERT INTO rtest_order2 (a, b, c) VALUES (new.a, nextval('rtest_seq'::text), 'rule 1 - this should run 1st'::text);
rtest_order1 | rtest_order_r1 | CREATE RULE rtest_order_r1 AS ON INSERT TO rtest_order1 DO INSTEAD INSERT INTO rtest_order2 (a, b, c) VALUES (new.a, nextval('rtest_seq'::regclass), 'rule 1 - this should run 1st'::text);
rtest_order1 | rtest_order_r2 | CREATE RULE rtest_order_r2 AS ON INSERT TO rtest_order1 DO INSERT INTO rtest_order2 (a, b, c) VALUES (new.a, nextval('rtest_seq'::text), 'rule 2 - this should run 2nd'::text);
rtest_order1 | rtest_order_r2 | CREATE RULE rtest_order_r2 AS ON INSERT TO rtest_order1 DO INSERT INTO rtest_order2 (a, b, c) VALUES (new.a, nextval('rtest_seq'::regclass), 'rule 2 - this should run 2nd'::text);
rtest_order1 | rtest_order_r3 | CREATE RULE rtest_order_r3 AS ON INSERT TO rtest_order1 DO INSTEAD INSERT INTO rtest_order2 (a, b, c) VALUES (new.a, nextval('rtest_seq'::text), 'rule 3 - this should run 3rd'::text);
rtest_order1 | rtest_order_r3 | CREATE RULE rtest_order_r3 AS ON INSERT TO rtest_order1 DO INSTEAD INSERT INTO rtest_order2 (a, b, c) VALUES (new.a, nextval('rtest_seq'::regclass), 'rule 3 - this should run 3rd'::text);
rtest_order1 | rtest_order_r4 | CREATE RULE rtest_order_r4 AS ON INSERT TO rtest_order1 WHERE (new.a < 100) DO INSTEAD INSERT INTO rtest_order2 (a, b, c) VALUES (new.a, nextval('rtest_seq'::text), 'rule 4 - this should run 4th'::text);
rtest_order1 | rtest_order_r4 | CREATE RULE rtest_order_r4 AS ON INSERT TO rtest_order1 WHERE (new.a < 100) DO INSTEAD INSERT INTO rtest_order2 (a, b, c) VALUES (new.a, nextval('rtest_seq'::regclass), 'rule 4 - this should run 4th'::text);
rtest_person | rtest_pers_del | CREATE RULE rtest_pers_del AS ON DELETE TO rtest_person DO DELETE FROM rtest_admin WHERE (rtest_admin.pname = old.pname);
rtest_person | rtest_pers_del | CREATE RULE rtest_pers_del AS ON DELETE TO rtest_person DO DELETE FROM rtest_admin WHERE (rtest_admin.pname = old.pname);
rtest_person | rtest_pers_upd | CREATE RULE rtest_pers_upd AS ON UPDATE TO rtest_person DO UPDATE rtest_admin SET pname = new.pname WHERE (rtest_admin.pname = old.pname);
rtest_person | rtest_pers_upd | CREATE RULE rtest_pers_upd AS ON UPDATE TO rtest_person DO UPDATE rtest_admin SET pname = new.pname WHERE (rtest_admin.pname = old.pname);
rtest_system | rtest_sys_del | CREATE RULE rtest_sys_del AS ON DELETE TO rtest_system DO (DELETE FROM rtest_interface WHERE (rtest_interface.sysname = old.sysname); DELETE FROM rtest_admin WHERE (rtest_admin.sysname = old.sysname); );
rtest_system | rtest_sys_del | CREATE RULE rtest_sys_del AS ON DELETE TO rtest_system DO (DELETE FROM rtest_interface WHERE (rtest_interface.sysname = old.sysname); DELETE FROM rtest_admin WHERE (rtest_admin.sysname = old.sysname); );
Tom Lane
20 years ago