I have been looking around to get an idea how to make RULES on a VIEW for INSERT , UPDATE and DELETE of a VIEW with an INNER JOIN.

First the idea:
There are 3 tables, those are related one way or another, combined in this view:
pg_user (ok, it's a view really)
tblcontacts (with contact information like first name and lastname and such)
tbldepartments (a user works at a certain department)
tblusersettings (some extra information about the user which is not in pg_shadow, eg locked status, birthdate and such)

tblusersettings has the links to tbldepartments, tblcontacts and pg_user (via a trigger to check if the user exists)

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CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW usersview AS
SELECT tblusersettings.userid, tblusersettings.birthdate, tblusersettings.islocked, pg_user.usename, pg_user.usesuper, pg_user.valuntil, tbldepartments.departmentname, tbldepartments."ID" AS departmentid, tbldepartments.dateformatid, tbldepartments.currencyid, tblcontacts."ID" AS contactid, tblcontacts.firstname, tblcontacts.lastname, tblcontacts.gender, tblcontacts."function", tblcontacts.phone, tblcontacts.email, tblcontacts.languageid
  FROM tblusersettings
  JOIN pg_user ON tblusersettings.userid = pg_user.usesysid
  JOIN tbldepartments ON tblusersettings.departmentid = tbldepartments."ID"
  JOIN tblcontacts ON tblusersettings.contactid = tblcontacts."ID"
 ORDER BY pg_user.usename;

the view is OK, so I want something like this to INSERT a user:

CREATE OR REPLACE RULE insertuser AS
  ON INSERT TO usersview
  DO INSTEAD
(
   (CREATE USER NEW.usename);
(INSERT INTO tblcontacts(firstname, lastname, gender, titleid, function, phone, email, languageid, attentionid) VALUES (NEW.firstname, NEW.lastname, NEW.gender, 0, NEW.function, NEW.phone, NEW.email, NEW.mobile, NEW.languageid, 0));
);


The idea is:
- Create a user
- Create a contact
- Create usersettings for the user with in it the newly created contactid and userid.

How impossible is this? How do I get the newly created contact and user id's in the usersettings table?

TIA,
Michiel

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