Re: enable/disable trigger (Re: Fwd: [HACKERS] Open items)

Gavin Sherry wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Satoshi Nagayasu wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is a first patch to allow these commands.
> >
> > > ALTER TABLE <table> ENABLE TRIGGER <trigname>
> > > ALTER TABLE <table> DISABLE TRIGGER <trigname>
> >
>
> Hmmm.. just thinking about it for a second. I wonder if we should also
> support:
>
> ALTER TABLE DISABLE TRIGGERS
>
> which would disable all triggers on the table. We would have a
> complimentary ENABLE TRIGGERS as well, obviously. The reason I say this is
> that the common case will be that people are doing a bulk load and want to
> disable all triggers. However, this will be very useful for debugging
> interactions between triggers on a table so a user might want to disable
> only one of many triggers -- as your current grammar does.
>
> Perhaps a way of making the grammar a little less ambiguous would be to
> have the following to disable all triggers:
>
> ALTER TABLE <table> DISABLE TRIGGERS
>
> and the following to disable one:
>
> ALTER TRIGGER <trigger> DISABLE

The proposed syntax in TODO.detail/trigger is:

ALTER TABLE foo {DISABLE|ENABLE} TRIGGER { ALL | trigger_name [ ,... ] };

which would cleanly allow all triggers of a table to be disabled.

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