Re: trigger for TRUNCATE? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Richard Huxton
Subject Re: trigger for TRUNCATE?
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Msg-id 478727C3.3090301@archonet.com
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In response to Re: trigger for TRUNCATE?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: trigger for TRUNCATE?  (Erik Jones <erik@myemma.com>)
Re: trigger for TRUNCATE?  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> My thinking is that a TRUNCATE trigger is a per-statement trigger which
>> doesn't have access to the set of deleted rows (Replicator uses it that
>> way -- we replicate the truncate action, and replay it on the replica).
>> In that way it would be different from a per-statement trigger for
>> DELETE.
> 
> Ah, right.  I was thinking in terms of having TRUNCATE actually fire the
> existing ON DELETE-type triggers, but that's not really helpful --- you'd
> need a separate trigger-event type.  So we could just say by fiat that
> an ON TRUNCATE trigger doesn't get any rowset information, even after we
> add that for the other types of statement-level triggers.

I've always considered TRUNCATE to be DDL rather than DML. I mentally 
group it with DROP TABLE rather than DELETE>

--   Richard Huxton  Archonet Ltd


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