regarding triggers - Mailing list pgsql-general

From surabhi.ahuja
Subject regarding triggers
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Msg-id 967CFC4343BF2A4DAFACD026D33DC85118ECA9@jal.iiitb.ac.in
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Responses Re: regarding triggers  (John McCawley <nospam@hardgeus.com>)
Re: regarding triggers  (Jaime Casanova <systemguards@gmail.com>)
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is there an advantage of using a trigger? when the same job can be performed by a stored procedure?

one more question is as follows:
suppose i have a table x, with a primary attribute 'a'

and i have a table y, with the primary attribute 'b', and a foreign key 'a'.

suppose i say delete from x where a = '1',

it means that not only the rows from x get deleted but also rows from y get deleted.

now i have a trigger which is written for deletes taking place from the table y.

however if i say delete from x where a = '1',

will the trigger (mentioned above) still be called? (because delete are also taking place from the table y)

thanks,
regards
Surabhi

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