Re: left join with smaller table or index on (XXX is not null) to avoid upsert

From: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: left join with smaller table or index on (XXX is not null) to avoid upsert
Date: 2009-01-19 16:48:27
Message-ID: 2f4958ff0901190848h5c5eb795n4e358868291572df@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> But having said that: 8.4 will provide a standard trigger that
> short-circuits vacuous updates, which you can apply to tables in which
> you think vacuous updates are likely. It's your responsibility to place
> the trigger so that it doesn't interfere with any other trigger
> processing you may have.

Tom, Can you point us to
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/ where it is described
in more detail ?

--
GJ

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