Re: disable triggers isolated to transaction only?

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> My question is this: will ALTER TABLE ONLY $subtable DISABLE TRIGGER
> ALL within a transaction only affect my transaction, or will it affect
> anyone inserting into this subtable. If it blocks external inserts
> that's ok since my transactions are small while moving the data. I
> guess at worse I lock the table.

ALTER TABLE will lock and block, but I'd be remiss if I didn't point
out the use of session_replication_role as a much better solution to
this particular class of problem. (Even if your version does not
support it, Vick, it should be noted here for the archives). The
session_replication_role was added in 8.3:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/sql-altertable.html

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