Postgres Pro
Downloads
Home   >   mailing lists

Re: Why no INSTEAD OF triggers on tables? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Why no INSTEAD OF triggers on tables?
Date
Msg-id 19020.1387239755@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Why no INSTEAD OF triggers on tables?  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
Tree view 
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> I've looked in the archives, but I can't find a reason why INSTEAD OF
> triggers were never enabled for tables.

What would that mean exactly?  And how would you do the actual update
when it came time to?

> Was there a technical obstacle, or is this just a TUIT issue?

It sounds more like a requestor-hasnt-thought-it-through issue.
        regards, tom lane

pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Josh Berkus
Date:
Subject: Why no INSTEAD OF triggers on tables?
Next
From: Tatsuo Ishii
Date:
Subject: Re: Proposal: variant of regclass