Re: Trigger questions

On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 9:49 AM DAVID ROTH <adaptron(at)comcast(dot)net> wrote:

> 1) Can I create a trigger on a view?
> 2) Do triggers cascade?
>
> Say I have an insert trigger on a table.
> And, I have an insert trigger on a view that references this table
> If I do an insert on the view, will both triggers fire?
>

Can not have triggers on Views, Views use RULES which are DO INSTEAD.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/rules.html

Yes if you have an INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE rule on a view that inserts into a
table then that table's triggers will be executed.

Please note RULES should be avoided beyond the use case for VIEWS. RULES
are executed very early in the query tree; it is not trivial to write rules
on Tables.

Thanks