Re: disabling triggers?

Bob Parkinson <rwp(at)biome(dot)ac(dot)uk> writes:
> I've got a trigger/function pair that I need to disable while I do a
> manual update. Is it safe to drop the trigger, then re-create it on its
> own, or should I do the trigger/function pair.

Dropping the trigger seems sufficient. Dropping the function has at
least one big disadvantage: if the same function is supporting similar
triggers on other tables, dropping the function would break those
triggers.

> Is there a better method of temporarily disabling a trigger?

You could reach in and hack the reltriggers field in pg_class,
but dropping and recreating the trigger seems a lot cleaner and
safer.

regards, tom lane