Re: Partitioning feature ... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Partitioning feature ...
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Msg-id 20090331144659.GS23023@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Partitioning feature ...  (Nikhil Sontakke <nikhil.sontakke@enterprisedb.com>)
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Nikhil Sontakke escribió:

> > >>  As triggers are executed in order of their names, we've prefixed the
> > >> trigger names with "zz". This should work fine as long as no-one uses
> > >> trigger-name which starts with "zz".
> >
> > this seems a lot fragile... why system generated triggers has to be
> > executed following the same rules (talking about order of execution)
> > as user triggers? can't we simply execute them first or last or maybe
> > be clever and mark one to be executed first and others last?
> 
> AFAICS, we do not have any category like system triggers. So yeah, it would
> have been nice to generate triggers with names (starting with __ for
> example) for such special triggers. But I don't think we disallow
> user-triggers starting with underscores etc.

We already have system triggers -- the FK triggers.  I don't think we've
had all that much trouble with them.

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