Re: Triggers after insert - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Triggers after insert
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Msg-id 16870.1004041038@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Triggers after insert  (Fran Fabrizio <ffabrizio@mmrd.com>)
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Fran Fabrizio <ffabrizio@mmrd.com> writes:
> I seem to be observing that on a trigger I've created to fire
> AFTER INSERT, if I intentionally introduce some sort of syntax error to
> the trigger for example, and insert a row, the row does not appear in
> the table, even though I've declared it to fire after insert.  Shouldn't
> that row be there regardless of whether the trigger does or does not
> fire successfully?

No.  Failure of an AFTER trigger will still abort the transaction.

            regards, tom lane

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