"Gauthier, Dave" <dave(dot)gauthier(at)intel(dot)com> writes:
>> .. although, if you have triggers forcibly setting the columns, it
>> hardly matters what the users try to put into them, no?
> Ummmm..... Wellll.... I guess you have a point there :-)
> Still, it would be nicer for the DB to tell them "DON'T TOUCH THAT" as opposed to a trigger silently overriding whatever they may have thought they changed.
Well, you could have the triggers throw errors instead of being silent
about it.
regards, tom lane