At 07:34 PM 12/8/01 +0100, Ivan Prenosil wrote:

>
>Perhaps I was not clear enough. I do agree with most things you wrote.
>The ability to change semantics of view by suppressing its default
>behaviour and supplying new code in trigger is great, is superduper, ....
>
>The only thing I do not agree with is the way how to "activate" such feature.
>> The alternative to this mess is a simple and consistent rule:
>> Any before update trigger overrides automatic view update.
>
>I do agree that this rule _is_ simple and consistent,
>but I would still prefer _explicit_ control,
>rather than this "side effect" type control.
>

Would syntax on the view definition (as previously suggested) to
suppress the default behavior satisfy you?

Jim Starkey