Re: FOR EACH ROW triggers on partitioned tables

On 2018/02/15 6:26, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Another option is to rethink this feature from the ground up: instead of
> cloning catalog rows for each children, maybe we should have the trigger
> lookup code, when running DML on the child relation (the partition),
> obtain trigger entries not only for the child relation itself but also
> for its parents recursively -- so triggers defined in the parent are
> fired for the partitions, too. I'm not sure what implications this has
> for constraint triggers.
>
> The behavior should be the same, except that you cannot modify the
> trigger (firing conditions, etc) on the partition individually -- it
> works at the level of the whole partitioned table instead.

Do you mean to fire these triggers only if the parent table (not a child
table/partition) is addressed in the DML, right? If the table directly
addressed in the DML is a partition whose parent has a row-level trigger,
then that trigger should not get fired I suppose.

Thanks,
Amit