Re: Trigger position

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Euler Taveira <euler(at)eulerto(dot)com>, Marcos Pegoraro <marcos(at)f10(dot)com(dot)br>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Trigger position
Date: 2021-09-15 15:30:42
Message-ID: 202109151530.sdgdd7k4tode@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2021-Sep-15, Pavel Stehule wrote:

> Triggers that depend on execution order are pretty hell. It is a clean
> signal of some crazy design and overusing of triggers.

Yeah. The only case I've seen where order of triggers was important
(beyond the "before" / "after" classification) is where you have
something that you need to ensure runs before the FK triggers.

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