Re: Porting MSSQL to PGSQL (Was: [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?)

From: Harald Fuchs <hf0406x(at)protecting(dot)net>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Porting MSSQL to PGSQL (Was: [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?)
Date: 2006-05-22 15:24:17
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In article <20060522150647(dot)GE24404(at)svana(dot)org>,
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:

> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:00:22AM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>> > T-SQL has statement-level triggers, and they get used a lot (some big apps
>> > ONLY put code in triggers). Statement-level triggers are very efficient for
>> > maintaining aggregates; the closest PG has are rewrite rules.
>>
>> Yeah, I wish PostgreSQL had them. I've got clients that could certainly
>> make use of them.

> What are you referring to that is not supported currently?

Probably he means that a complete implementation of statement-level
triggers should include a way to access the rows affected by the
trigger call.

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