On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 13:45:53 -0500, Ann W. Harrison wrote:

>
>I've been looking at the 1999 and 2003 standards - actually
>asking Acrobat to look for me - and can find only one
>reference to the INSTEAD OF with regards to triggers.
>
>Does anyone have a pointer to the section that defines
>instead of trigger, etc.
>

Reference? No.

AFAIR INSTEAD OF triggers are the ones that implement
the entire writing operation in a certain table. Works a lot
like the ours BEFORE <operation> in non-updatable
views -- but it is on a base table.