Re: fire trigger for a row without update? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Merlin Moncure
Subject Re: fire trigger for a row without update?
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Msg-id b42b73150901150452s2c1de0f9r1e93bcc275a8f372@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: fire trigger for a row without update?  (Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz>)
Responses Re: fire trigger for a row without update?  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> wrote:
> On 2009-01-14, Gerhard Heift <ml-postgresql-20081012-3518@gheift.de> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> is it possible to call a trigger for a row in a table without updating the
>> row? I want to do it in plpgsql.
>
>> Something like UPDATE table WHERE id = 10;
>
> when faced with that problem I do this:
>
> UPDATE table SET id=id WHERE id = 10;

One small point.  'id' is probably indexed....to get better advantage
of 'HOT', try updating a field that is not indexed instead.

merlin


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