Re: ALTER TABLE TODO items

On Thu, 6 May 2004, Richard Huxton wrote:

> 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.

How about "cascade drop triggers" as an option so you can still do it in
one line should you want to?