Re: Clarify how triggers relate to transactions

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: him(at)nathanmlong(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Clarify how triggers relate to transactions
Date: 2021-04-28 11:24:53
Message-ID: 1a565681fe54535d69e6418ef5ab55405b92beac.camel@cybertec.at
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On Tue, 2021-04-27 at 14:26 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/sql-createtrigger.html
> Description:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createtrigger.html mentions the
> word "transaction" only once, in reference specifically to constraint
> triggers: "They can be fired either at the end of the statement causing the
> triggering event, or at the end of the containing transaction; in the latter
> case they are said to be deferred."
>
> If I understand correctly, it would be helpful to add this sentence or a
> corrected version of it: "Triggers always execute in the same transaction as
> the triggering event, and if a trigger fails, the transaction is rolled
> back."

Good idea in principle, but I'd put that information on
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/trigger-definition.html

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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