Thread: Order of triggers

Order of triggers

From
"Didier Gasser-Morlay"
Date:
Hi,

In my database, I am creating several triggers, some tables have more
than one trigger for the same Fire/Event (ie BEFORE INSERT)
combination.

How can I know in which order the triggers will fire or how can I
force a specific order to be used ?

In firebird, I used to use a "Position" parameter to determine the
order, is there an equivalent in PostgreSQL ?

Thanks for your help

Didier

Re: Order of triggers

From
"A. Kretschmer"
Date:
am  Thu, dem 24.01.2008, um 15:50:12 +0100 mailte Didier Gasser-Morlay folgendes:
> Hi,
>
> In my database, I am creating several triggers, some tables have more
> than one trigger for the same Fire/Event (ie BEFORE INSERT)
> combination.
>
> How can I know in which order the triggers will fire or how can I
> force a specific order to be used ?
>
> In firebird, I used to use a "Position" parameter to determine the
> order, is there an equivalent in PostgreSQL ?

The triggers fires alphabetical.


Andreas
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