Re: CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER in SQL pane (pgAdmin 1.14.1)

From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
To: Julius Tuskenis <julius(at)nsoft(dot)lt>
Cc: pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER in SQL pane (pgAdmin 1.14.1)
Date: 2012-01-02 21:57:34
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On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 10:50 +0100, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 15:39 +0200, Julius Tuskenis wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > After installing pgAdmin 1.14.1 I have noticed that CREATE CONSTRAINT
> > TRIGGER statements are shown in SQL pane when selecting table from
> > treeview. Is this done on purpose?
> > Frankly, I find no real use of statements like:
> > CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER "RI_ConstraintTrigger_73501293"
> > AFTER DELETE
> > ON b_dok
> > FOR EACH ROW
> > EXECUTE PROCEDURE "RI_FKey_cascade_del"();
> >
> > I think the constraint triggers should not be shown (at least by
> > default). They might be a good thing for debugging but not for
> > administrating the DB. I support the opinion stated in
> > http://www.pgadmin.org/support/faq.php :
> >
> > "
> > <...>
> > pgAdmin III considers constraint triggers as an internal implementation
> > detail, not interesting for the common administrator. In fact, CREATE
> > CONSTRAINT TRIGGER is for backward compatibility only, and shouldn't be
> > used in newer scripts any more. Some tools (e.g. pgAdmin II) imply this,
> > by showing a ADD CONSTRAINT when reverse engineering, while actually the
> > constraint information in the database is missing.
> > Run the adddepend script, which can be found in the backend's sources
> > contrib/adddepend directory. [AP]"
> >
> > I'd be glad if they disappeared from the SQL pane.
> >
> > pgAdmin 1.14.1
> > WinXp SP3
> > PostgreSQL 8.3.4 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (Gentoo
> > 4.3.2-r3 p1.6, pie-10.1.5) 4.3.2
> >
>
> System constraints triggers shouldn't appear at all if you didn't select
> the "Show system objects". They never should appear in the SQL pane of a
> table description for example.
>
> User constraints triggers should always appear.
>
> The fact that system constraint triggers appear wasn't done on purpose.
> As a matter of fact, this is a bug.
>

I tried to make it appear many times, but failed. Do you have
self-contained test case that I could use? Thanks.

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Guillaume
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