Re: can I update multiple table at a time?

From: Jagadeesh <mnjagadeesh(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: can I update multiple table at a time?
Date: 2008-10-10 07:54:09
Message-ID: dc8285b8-24cf-489d-80a4-621d2d9cc655@r37g2000prr.googlegroups.com
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Hi Julius Tuskenis,

Many thanks for helping me. These are good solutions. But I have some
doubts
Look below

On Oct 10, 11:06 am, jul(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)nsoft(dot)lt (Julius Tuskenis) wrote:

> I would suggest you 2 solutions:
> 1. to use a function to edit these fields. That way you will be sure
> that you will not forget to update both tables.
> 2. use a trigger on master table. If I understand you - the history
> table could be filled using trigger, when data in master table changes.
> That way you could change only master table in your application.
>
I think having triggers would bring performance down. So instead can
we have single
sql update statement to update all four fields of two tables? Just a
crazy idea.

> Good luck!
>
Thanks for the wish.
These wishes needed to implement smart solution to above problem :)

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