Re: Triggers on columns

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Triggers on columns
Date: 2009-09-03 18:40:12
Message-ID: 13516.1252003212@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> On tor, 2009-09-03 at 11:19 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> Sure, but I don't think it makes a lot of sense to spend a lot of time
>> implementing the standard behavior unless someone can provide a
>> plausible use case.

> One use case is porting Oracle applications. I see a lot of that used
> there. The original proposer might had have other ideas.

That's only a good argument if we are prepared to implement exactly
Oracle's semantics for the feature ... which, frankly, I have no reason
whatever to assume are exactly like the standard's :-(

regards, tom lane

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