Re: Touch row ?

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: NTPT <ntpt(at)centrum(dot)cz>
Cc: Chris Travers <chris(at)travelamericas(dot)com>, Chris Boget <chris(at)wild(dot)net>, Doug McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Touch row ?
Date: 2004-01-26 01:25:39
Message-ID: 20040126012539.GB15844@svana.org
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On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 02:09:02AM +0100, NTPT wrote:
> And why in POSTGRESQL there is not just an appropriate DATATYPE for creating a column type touch_timestamp in table (I suggest touch_timestamp to be the same in one transaction... ) ?
> I thing that it might be useful (and add no overhead) for lot of tasks ......

It would have overhead but why not just use a trigger which is the supported
and far more flexible way of doing this?

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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> (... have gone from d-i being barely usable even by its developers
> anywhere, to being about 20% done. Sweet. And the last 80% usually takes
> 20% of the time, too, right?) -- Anthony Towns, debian-devel-announce

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