Re: Performance question

On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 08:52:02AM -0300, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> If I've got a trigger that calls a function each time there is a DELETE or
> UPDATE opration on a table in my system, and in this function I retrieve
> some boolean information from another table and based on this information,
> additional code will be ran or not in this function. Could the solely fact
> of calling the function and selecting the data on another table (and the
> trigger on each update and delete on any table) affect the overall db
> performance in a noticiable manner ?

Of course, you're adding at least one extra query to each UPDATE and
DELETE. Plus the overhead of the trigger itself.

The real question is: so what? If you need that logic to happen, you
need it to happen. Unless you'll be updating or deleting scores of rows
a second, I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Remember the first rule of performance tuning: don't. :)
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