Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2018-Jun-04, Tom Lane wrote:
>> ... why doesn't the same problem apply to AFTER triggers that are attached
>> to the inheritance parent?
> With a BEFORE trigger, running the trigger might change the target
> partition, which has the potential for all kinds of trouble.
Got it. That seems like not just an implementation restriction, but
a pretty fundamental issue.
Could we solve it by saying that triggers on partitioned tables aren't
allowed to change the partitioning values? (Or at least, not allowed
to change them in a way that changes the target partition.)
regards, tom lane
