From: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
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To: | Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: ALTER TABLE TODO items |
Date: | 2004-05-06 15:47:13 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0405060946080.4971-100000@css120.ihs.com |
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On Thu, 6 May 2004, Richard Huxton wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> >>Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> writes:
> >>
> >>>Does that mean I'll want to disable triggers while I do this?
> >>
> >>Hrm. Right now the code does not fire triggers at all, but that seems
> >>wrong. However, I doubt that very many triggers could cope with update
> >>events in which the old and new rows have different rowtypes :-(.
> >>Any thoughts what to do about that?
> >
> >
> > If triggers exist, I think we should just throw a warning that triggers
> > will not be fired.
>
> Tom's point about triggers probably not working after the upgrade is a
> good one though. Is it reasonable to just refuse to act on a table until
> all triggers are dropped? I'd rather be forced to go through and
> drop/restore triggers in a script than be surprised later on.
How about "cascade drop triggers" as an option so you can still do it in
one line should you want to?
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