Re: [PATCHES] enable/disable trigger (Re: Fwd: Open items)

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Oh, and one trick for disabling triggers in a single session is to do
> > this:
>
> > BEGIN WORK;
> > ALTER TABLE xx DISABLE TRIGGER ALL
> > ...
> > ALTER TABLE xx ENABLE TRIGGER ALL
> > COMMIT WORK;
>
> > In this case, the triggers are disabled just for that session.
>
> ... but everybody else is locked out completely, because the ALTER takes
> an exclusive lock on the table. It's a bit misleading to describe that
> as a local change.

Oh, I had not considered that.

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