Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Oh, and one trick for disabling triggers in a single session is to do
> this:
> BEGIN WORK;
> ALTER TABLE xx DISABLE TRIGGER ALL
> ...
> ALTER TABLE xx ENABLE TRIGGER ALL
> COMMIT WORK;
> In this case, the triggers are disabled just for that session.
... but everybody else is locked out completely, because the ALTER takes
an exclusive lock on the table. It's a bit misleading to describe that
as a local change.
regards, tom lane
