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disable a single trigger

From
Laurette Cisneros
Date:
What is the status of the tgenabled field in pg_trigger?  It would be so
nice to be able to disable just a single trigger on a table rather than
having to disable all triggers.  The docs say "not presently checked
everywhere it should be, so disabling a trigger by setting this false 
does not work reliably". 

Will it ever be reliable?

Thanks,

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Re: disable a single trigger

From
Tom Lane
Date:
Laurette Cisneros <laurette@nextbus.com> writes:
> What is the status of the tgenabled field in pg_trigger?  It would be so
> nice to be able to disable just a single trigger on a table rather than
> having to disable all triggers.  The docs say "not presently checked
> everywhere it should be, so disabling a trigger by setting this false 
> does not work reliably". 

I believe it does work for BEFORE triggers, but not AFTER triggers.
There was some question about when it should be checked for an AFTER
trigger (when the event is queued?  Or fired?).
        regards, tom lane