Re: pg_dump data structures for triggers

Vik Fearing <vik(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr> writes:
> On 02/04/2016 01:44 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm looking into fixing the problem reported here:
>> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1445A624-D09F-4B51-9C41-46BA1E2D6862@neveragain.de
>> namely that if we split a view into a table + rule (because of circular
>> dependencies), parallel pg_restore fails to ensure that it creates any
>> triggers for the view only after creating the rule. If it tries to
>> create the triggers first, the backend may barf because they're the wrong
>> type of triggers for a plain table.

> No objections to this, but my "better idea" is simply to allow INSTEAD
> OF triggers on tables like discussed last year.
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/14c6fe168a9-1012-10e1b@webprd-a87.mail.aol.com

That sounds like a new feature, and not something we'd want to backpatch.

regards, tom lane