Re: skip FK trigger on UPDATE - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Neil Conway
Subject Re: skip FK trigger on UPDATE
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Msg-id 429A5B4F.1060605@samurai.com
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In response to Re: skip FK trigger on UPDATE  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: skip FK trigger on UPDATE  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> You seem to have also done a fair amount of unrelated hacking around.
> What's the point of removing the distinction between check_ins and
> check_upd functions?

I talked about this in an earlier message to -hackers: check_upd was
actually unused (check_ins was used for both inserts and updates).

> I think that may confuse existing client code
> that looks at the triggers, without really buying much.  A possibly
> stronger argument is that if we find down the road that we need
> separate functions again, we'll be in a bit of a sticky place; at
> least if we need it to fix a bug without forcing initdb.

Hmm, I suppose -- if you prefer I can have check_ins called by the
INSERT trigger and check_upd called by the UPDATE trigger, which
probably makes more sense.

-Neil

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