Thread: Disable Trigger

Is there a way to temporarily disable a trigger without dropping and
re-adding it?

Thanks,
Chuck

Charles Haron wrote:
> Is there a way to temporarily disable a trigger without dropping and
> re-adding it?

You can update the sytem tables by setting the number of triggers to
zero on the table. See the PostgreSQL cookbook for examples.  We have a
TODO item to get this implemented cleanly.

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hi,

Charles Haron wrote, On 3/23/2004 21:48:

> Is there a way to temporarily disable a trigger without dropping and
> re-adding it?

if you ever use dump:
pg_dump --disable-triggers ...


off:
UPDATE pg_catalog.pg_class SET reltriggers = 0 WHERE oid =
'tablename'::pg_catalog.regclass;

on:
UPDATE pg_catalog.pg_class SET reltriggers = (SELECT pg_catalog.count(*)
FROM pg_catalog.pg_trigger where pg_class.oid = tgrelid) WHERE oid =
'tablename'::pg_catalog.regclass;

C.