Re: Triggers with DO functionality

On 17 February 2012 20:40, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr> wrote:
> Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> writes:
>> And thinking about it, DO is a bit nonsense here, so maybe we'd just
>> have something like:
>>
>> CREATE TRIGGER...
>> AS $$
>> BEGIN
>> END;
>> $$;
>>
>> i.e. the same as a function.
>
> I like that.  How do you tell which language the trigger is written in?

Exactly the same as a function I'd imagine. Just tack LANGUAGE
<language>; at the end.

> I'm not so sure about other function properties (SET, COST, ROWS,
> SECURITY DEFINER etc) because applying default and punting users to go
> use the full CREATE FUNCTION syntax would be a practical answer here.

*shrug* There's also the question about the stability of the trigger's
own in-line function too (i.e. IMMUTABLE, STABLE, VOLATILE).

--
Thom