Re: After Trigger assignment to NEW - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Owen Jacobson
Subject Re: After Trigger assignment to NEW
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Msg-id 144D12D7DD4EC04F99241498BB4EEDCC23419A@nelson.osl.com
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In response to After Trigger assignment to NEW  (Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>)
Responses Re: After Trigger assignment to NEW  (Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>)
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Achilleus Mantzios wrote:

> O Tom Lane έγραψε στις Feb 24, 2006 :
>
> > By definition, an AFTER trigger is too late to change what was
> > stored. Use a BEFORE trigger.
>
> Too late if someone wants to store it.
> I wanna store the intented original values, thats why i use
> AFTER trigger.
> But i would like to alter what a final AFTER trigger would see.
>
> I'll elabarote a little.
>
> An update happens.
> The row is stored.
> An after trigger is fired that alters some NEW columns
> (nullifies them), aiming for a subsequent trigger
> to see the altered results .
>
> It should be something like a pointer to a HeapTuple, (right?),
> so that would be feasible i suppose.
>
> I would not even make a post if it was something that trivial.
>
> I hope you get my point.

Your real problem is that the "subsequent" trigger has behaviour you don't like.  That's what you should be fixing.  If
dbmirrorhas no way to exclude specific tables from mirroring, take it up with them as a feature request, or patch
dbmirrorto work how you want it to. 

AFTER triggers *must* receive the row that was actually inserted/updated/deleted.  If they could receive a "modified"
rowthat didn't reflect what was actually in the database, all sorts of useful trigger-based logging and replication
patternswouldn't work, and there's really no other way to implement them.  See also Tom Lane's other message for
furtherimplications of being able to modify the rows seen by AFTER triggers. 

I'd also be hesitant to write triggers that have to execute in a specific order.


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