Re: Optional REFERENCES Feature in CREATE TRIGGER Command

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: hyip(at)site(dot)uottawa(dot)ca
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Optional REFERENCES Feature in CREATE TRIGGER Command
Date: 2005-06-05 01:27:10
Message-ID: 200506050127.j551RAD10683@candle.pha.pa.us
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hyip(at)site(dot)uottawa(dot)ca wrote:
> > I must be missing something, but AFAICS this patch doesn't actually *do*
> > anything useful. It looks to me like you've implemented a write-only
> > addition to the system catalogs. (And not even done a very good job of
> > that --- no documentation, no pg_dump support.) What's the point?
>
> I just want to emphasis one thing.
>
> The point is this implementation is the fundamental, necessary, and
> critical preparation and step for implementing execution of standard SQL
> commands in trigger action in future, instead of using user-defined
> functions in trigger action.

OK, but we usually don't add stuff to CVS until the feature is ready to
be useful.

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