On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Andrew Dunstan <
andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
Gurjeet Singh wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Bruce Momjian <
bruce@momjian.us> <mailto:
bruce@momjian.us>> wrote:
>
>
> I assume don't want a TODO for this? (Suppress UPDATE no changed
> columns)
>
>
> I am starting to implement this. Do we want to have this trigger
> function in the server, or in an external module?
>
>
I have the trigger part of this done, in fact. What remains to be done
is to add it to the catalog and document it. The intention is to make it
a builtin as it will be generally useful. If you want to work on the
remaining parts then I will happily ship you the C code for the trigger.
In fact, I just finished writing the C code and including it in the catalog (Just tested that it's visible in the catalog). I will test it to see if it does actually do what we want it to.
I have incorporated all the suggestions above. Would love to see your code in the meantime.
Here's the C code:
Datum
trig_ignore_duplicate_updates( PG_FUNCTION_ARGS )
{
TriggerData *trigData;
HeapTuple oldTuple;
HeapTuple newTuple;
if (!CALLED_AS_TRIGGER(fcinfo))
elog(ERROR, "trig_ignore_duplicate_updates: not called by trigger manager.");
if( !TRIGGER_FIRED_BY_UPDATE(trigData->tg_event)
&& !TRIGGER_FIRED_BEFORE(trigData->tg_event)
&& !TRIGGER_FIRED_FOR_ROW(trigData->tg_event) )
{
elog(ERROR, "trig_ignore_duplicate_updates: Can only be executed for UPDATE, BEFORE and FOR EACH ROW.");
}
trigData = (TriggerData *) fcinfo->context;
oldTuple = trigData->tg_trigtuple;
newTuple = trigData->tg_newtuple;
if (newTuple->t_len == oldTuple->t_len
&& newTuple->t_data->t_hoff == oldTuple->t_data->t_hoff
&& HeapTupleHeaderGetNatts(newTuple->t_data) == HeapTupleHeaderGetNatts(oldTuple->t_data)
&& (newTuple->t_data->t_infomask & ~HEAP_XACT_MASK)
== (oldTuple->t_data->t_infomask & ~HEAP_XACT_MASK)
&& memcmp( (char*)(newTuple->t_data) + offsetof(HeapTupleHeaderData, t_bits),
(char*)(oldTuple->t_data) + offsetof(HeapTupleHeaderData, t_bits),
newTuple->t_len - offsetof(HeapTupleHeaderData, t_bits) ) == 0 )
{
/* return without crating a new tuple */
return PointerGetDatum( NULL );
}
return PointerGetDatum( trigData->tg_newtuple );
}
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