Re: Trigger with WHEN clause (WIP) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: Trigger with WHEN clause (WIP)
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Msg-id 20091016080128.M29748@megazone.bigpanda.com
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In response to Re: Trigger with WHEN clause (WIP)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Trigger with WHEN clause (WIP)
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On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Tom Lane wrote:

> I note BTW that we have some ad-hoc logic already that arranges to
> suppress queuing of AFTER events for FK triggers, if the FK column
> value has not changed.  It might be interesting to look at whether
> that hack could be unified with the user-accessible feature.  It's
> essentially a WHEN OLD.x IS NOT DISTINCT FROM NEW.x test.

Note that one of those cases (RI_TRIGGER_FK) is a bit special due to the
transaction id test. It might be worth seeing if a better solution is
possible to cover the case in the comment if the above becomes possible,
though.



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