Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 9:41 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> +1. The best solution would presumably be to go through the normal
>> object deletion mechanism; though possibly there's a reason that
>> won't work given you're already inside some other DDL.
> Maybe:
> - CatalogTupleDelete(trigrel, &trigtup->t_self);
> + RemoveTriggerById(trgform->oid)?
No, that's still the back end of the deletion machinery, and in particular
it would fail to clean pg_depend entries for the trigger. Going in by the
front door would use performDeletion(). (See deleteOneObject() to get
an idea of what's being possibly missed out here.)
regards, tom lane