Re: Partitioning feature ...

Hi,

>
> >> As triggers are executed in order of their names, we've prefixed the
> >> trigger names with "zz". This should work fine as long as no-one uses
> >> trigger-name which starts with "zz".
> >>
>
> this seems a lot fragile... why system generated triggers has to be
> executed following the same rules (talking about order of execution)
> as user triggers? can't we simply execute them first or last or maybe
> be clever and mark one to be executed first and others last?
>

AFAICS, we do not have any category like system triggers. So yeah, it would
have been nice to generate triggers with names (starting with __ for
example) for such special triggers. But I don't think we disallow
user-triggers starting with underscores etc.

So some of the options could be:

- to add a new column in pg_trigger to indicate special or system triggers
which can be executed last (sorted order if multiple entries)

or

- invent a prefix "__partition__" or something and disallow user triggers to
use such a prefix for their names, plus introduce logic to execute them
(again sorted order if multiple entries) last.

Regards,
Nikhils
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