I would like to fire a trigger when the value in a single column have
changed. I read somewhere that this is in the SQL-standard but not in
postgresql, I don't have the SQL-spec so I can't check, and I don't know
what version of the standard.
I can't find it in the todo list though, either it's missing and should be
added or it's not there by intention.
I have a table where the rows are partitioned into small groups. When a
value in column A changes, then every value in the same group would have
their column B value updated. This would in turn trigger more things, If
the trigger is fired only when column A changes the problem is solved.
After this I need to do almost the same procedure where a value of column
B is changed to update the column C for all rules in the group. This
ordering of triggers would work automatically if they fire just when the
correct column are updated.
Well, I can work around these things. One way is to place B and C in their
own tables so updating these don't trigger anything in the original table.
I also think I can keep them in the relation by being carefull and not
update unless the value actually changed, this costs a litle extra CPU
time.
If i'm lucky it's even fixed in 7.3 and then I can live without it for a
while.
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/Dennis
