From: | Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: ALTER TABLE TODO items |
Date: | 2004-05-06 07:51:05 |
Message-ID: | 4099EE69.6080208@archonet.com |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>>Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> writes:
>>
>>>Does that mean I'll want to disable triggers while I do this?
>>
>>Hrm. Right now the code does not fire triggers at all, but that seems
>>wrong. However, I doubt that very many triggers could cope with update
>>events in which the old and new rows have different rowtypes :-(.
>>Any thoughts what to do about that?
>
>
> If triggers exist, I think we should just throw a warning that triggers
> will not be fired.
Tom's point about triggers probably not working after the upgrade is a
good one though. Is it reasonable to just refuse to act on a table until
all triggers are dropped? I'd rather be forced to go through and
drop/restore triggers in a script than be surprised later on.
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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