Re: transaction and triggers - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: transaction and triggers
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Msg-id 20080118152625.GE5326@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: transaction and triggers  (Gerardo Herzig <gherzig@fmed.uba.ar>)
Responses Re: transaction and triggers  (Gerardo Herzig <gherzig@fmed.uba.ar>)
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Gerardo Herzig escribió:

> Right.  But  today, that trigger do some other work, wich includes writing 
> some files to disk, so there is my problem. Crap, i guess i will have to 
> review the main logic.

Probably it's better to move the actual file writing to a listener
external process -- the transaction only does a NOTIFY, which is certain
to be delivered only when the transaction commits.  So if it aborts, no
spurious write occurs.

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