> >>Any strong feelings on whether this is necessary for a first release? > > > > No. I'm not sure you'd really need triggers written in R ever ;-) > > Yeah, that's what I figured too.
Indeed. R sounds like it might be an interesting platform from which to do "data mining," and in that sort of context, you're almost exclusively reading data, so the loss of triggers would be of no great importance. What might be "nifty" would be to have some mappings that did Clever Transformations of Queries Into Views, particularly if that allowed harnessing the DBMS to do some of the statistical analysis behind your back... -- If this was helpful, <http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=cbbrowne> rate me http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/rdbms.html "After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident it makes you wonder about history." -- Bits and Pieces ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster