Re: Dependence beetwen Function

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Dan Langille <dan(at)langille(dot)org>
Cc: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Dependence beetwen Function
Date: 2002-03-12 20:50:53
Message-ID: 20020312124855.Y68318-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Dan Langille wrote:

> On 12 Mar 2002 at 9:18, Stephan Szabo wrote:
>
> >
> > On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> >
> > > Hi to all
> > >
> > > Suppose that I have the function A that use the fucntion B.
> > > When I drop and reconstruct B I should also reconstruct A.
> > > Can I avoid this ?
> > > Is a really problem with hundreds of function around.
> >
> > If you're using 7.2 you can use create or replace function
> > rather than drop function followed by create function.
>
> I just finished updating my SP and RI functions to take advantage of this.
> While doing that I starting thinking about triggers. Checking the
> documentation, I don't see a similar feature for triggers. I'm guessing
> that triggers do not suffer from the same problem as that which prompted
> the original post.

I don't know of anything that directly refers to triggers.
You will however want to use create or replace function on the functions
refered to by triggers since that way you don't need to drop and recreate
the trigger.

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