Mallah,
> Is setting reltriggers=0 on pg_class an accepatble way of
> disabling triggers on a table temporarily?
Yes. pg_dump does this.
> secondly is it worth having commands like
> alter trigger <triggername> inactive;
> alter trigger <triggername> active ;
> i feel such commands exists on Oracle.
No, since DROP TRIGGER ... CREATE TRIGGER does the same thing in Postgres.
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