Re: ALTER TABLE TODO items - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: ALTER TABLE TODO items
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Msg-id 200405060300.i4630Tq11932@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: ALTER TABLE TODO items  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> writes:
> > Does that mean I'll want to disable triggers while I do this?
> 
> Hrm.  Right now the code does not fire triggers at all, but that seems
> wrong.  However, I doubt that very many triggers could cope with update
> events in which the old and new rows have different rowtypes :-(.
> Any thoughts what to do about that?

If triggers exist, I think we should just throw a warning that triggers
will not be fired.

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