Re: Partitioned tables and triggers

mephysto <mephystoonhell(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hello to everyone, yesterday I created my first montly partitioned table with
> its insert trigger following the specific manual page.
>
> At the moment table seems to work correctly, but I have some doubts:
>
> 1 - After an insert operation, I can see data either in master and in child
> table. Is this a normal behavior?

Yeah, but you can say 'select ... from ONLY ...'

> 2 - I created only insert trigger, but not update and delete. Do I need also
> these triggers to managing data correctly?

Depends. Is this a insert-only - table, or do you have updates/deletes?

> 3 - When a BEFORE INSERT trigger function execute in its turn an INSERT
> operation, are the origina INSERT executed or not? Are the data inserted in
> master table also, and not only in child table?

Your INSERT-Function should return NULL to avoid insert into the
main-table.

Andreas
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