Re: implicit transaction changes trigger behaviour

Willy-Bas Loos <willybas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I currently have a fairly complex use case to solve and one thing i tried
> was a deferred constraint trigger. I'm not sure if this solution is the way
> to go, but anyway: As i was testing my code, i noticed that the trigger
> behaves differently depending on whether or not i explicitly use BEGIN and
> COMMIT, even though there is only 1 query in the transaction.
> I am wondering if this is a bug in postgresql?

I think the issue is that you marked the trigger as STABLE. That causes
it to use the calling query's snapshot so it doesn't see the updates,
if it's fired during the delete query and not during the subsequent
COMMIT. If I remove the STABLE label then it works as you expect.

This is probably under-documented but I'm not sure that it should be
considered a bug.

The trigger seems a bit broken besides that, in that the comments claim it
has something to do with the OLD row's id field(s) but the query is not in
fact taking that into account.

regards, tom lane