At 18:03 21/07/01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>Could we get away with restricting INSERT RETURNING to work only on
>inserts directly to tables (no ON INSERT DO INSTEAD allowed)?  Or is
>that too much of a kluge?
>

I don't see it as a kludge, just a limitation on the first pass. If people
need the feature then they can recode their DO INSTEAD as a trigger (I
think that works...). You probably need to return useful information to the
application to let it know what has happened, however.

 
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