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

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Satoshi Nagayasu <nagayasus(at)nttdata(dot)co(dot)jp>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] enable/disable trigger (Re: Fwd: Open items)
Date: 2005-08-16 02:18:15
Message-ID: 20737.1124158695@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Oh, and one trick for disabling triggers in a single session is to do
> this:

> BEGIN WORK;
> ALTER TABLE xx DISABLE TRIGGER ALL
> ...
> ALTER TABLE xx ENABLE TRIGGER ALL
> COMMIT WORK;

> In this case, the triggers are disabled just for that session.

... but everybody else is locked out completely, because the ALTER takes
an exclusive lock on the table. It's a bit misleading to describe that
as a local change.

regards, tom lane

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