Dennis Gearon wrote:
> So,
> I can make all the changes I want within a transaction, and no related triggers fire before
> the changes are are committed, right?
> The triggers work on the image of the data before the transaction is BEGINs,
> PLUS what it would look like with ALL UPDATES/DELETES in the tranaction being successfull?
> And there's now way to tell which triggers on what tables affected in the transaction will
> fire first, right?
In 7.3, triggers fire in alphabetical order, as do rules.
AFTER triggers are most needed when you need to see a value assigned by
the primary command, like the sequence number assigned to a column.
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