Re: Disable Triggers

On Thursday 21 February 2008 12:56, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Terry Lee Tucker <terry(at)turbocorp(dot)com>
wrote:
> > Greetings:
> >
> > We have been working diligently toward integrating Slony into our
> > production databases. We've been having trouble with various tables,
> > although being replicated perfectly in the initial replication stage,
> > afterwards, getting out of sync.
> >
> > I have finally figured out what the problem is. We have a Perl process
> > that continually updates certain columns across all databases. That Perl
> > process calls a function we have written called disable_triggers which
> > updates pg_class, setting reltriggers to 0 for the given table, and then
> > later, after the work is complete, resetting reltriggers to the original
> > value. Unfortunately, during this process, the Slony trigger is disabled
> > as well which is causing our problem.
>
> Disabling all triggers is not something you do on a live, running
> database with users accessing and possibly changing it, it's something
> you do to a database during maintenance when no one else is connected.
> You'll have to go with the solution you talked about, i.e. disabling
> individual triggers by name, etc...
>

I have failed to mention that we are disabling all the triggers on a given
table only done during a transaction; thus, it affects no one else.

Thanks for the input...
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Terry Lee Tucker
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