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From Gaetano Mendola
Subject new field content lost
Date
Msg-id 480776EE.1060005@gmail.com
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Responses Re: new field content lost  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hi all,
since long time I have implemented a materialized view, today I had to add a
new field and I faced the following (I believe) bug.

The bug can be replicated on a 8.2.7


-- SETUP
create table test (a integer, b integer);
create table test_trigger (a integer);

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION trigger_test()
RETURNS TRIGGER AS'
DECLARE

BEGIN  update test set b = b*10 where a = NEW.a;
  RETURN NEW;
END;
' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';

CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER trigger_test
AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE ON test_trigger DEFERRABLE INITIALLY DEFERRED
FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE trigger_test();

insert into test values         (1,1),(2,2),(3,3);
insert into test_trigger values (1),(2),(3);


-- FROM CONNECTION A
update test_trigger set a=1 where a=1;

-- FROM CONNECTION B
alter table test add column c integer;
update test set c = 15;
select * from test;

-- FROM CONNECTION A
update test_trigger set a=2 where a=2;

--FROM CONNECTION B
select * from test;

you can see that the value c=15 for a=2 has been nullified



Regards
Gaetano



























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