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From Daisuke Maki
Subject ROLLBACK triggers?
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Msg-id 43D4A356.7060404@wafu.ne.jp
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Hi,

First, apologies if my question is a bit off-course. Please feel free to
direct me to a different mailing list if not appropriate.

I'm currently trying to embed Senna full text search engine
(http://qwik.jp/senna/) into postgres. I'm trying to achieve this by
using triggers (implemented in C) to cause an update to senna's index at
various points.

This seemed to work fine until I realized that while postgres' SQL
commands could be rolled back, Senna's index remained already-changed.
There are other potential issues with regards to transaction safety, but
currently this seems to be a problem that I cannot fix by simply
patching Senna. So I thought that if there was a rollback trigger, I
could call whatever necessary to undo the changes that were made to the
index.

A quick scan of the docs and the source code tree seems to indicate that
there is no such thing as a rollback trigger, short of hacking it.

Now, I'm wondering: 1. Is there a rollback/commit trigger? If not, is it planned to be    implemented at all? 2. Is
therea way to undo changes to data external to postgres    when a rollback occurs, OR, only update that external data
when a commit occurs?
 

Thanks in advance,
--d


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