Re: views & triggers - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: views & triggers
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Msg-id 21377.989249220@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to views & triggers  (Lieven Van Acker <lieven@elisa.be>)
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Lieven Van Acker <lieven@elisa.be> writes:
> does Postgresql 7.1 support triggers on a view actions?

No, triggers apply to actual tuple insertions/updates/deletions,
and a view never has any of those.  You'd need to set the triggers
on the underlying real tables, instead.

> Problem is I cannot easily set the trigger on the tables because of
> permission issues...

I think the long-term plan is for trigger functions to execute setuid
to the table owner.  Will that help?

            regards, tom lane

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