Re: Inserting heap tuples in bulk in COPY

On Aug12, 2011, at 21:16 , Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Triggers complicate this. I believe it is only safe to group tuples together like this if the table has no triggers. A BEFORE ROW trigger might run a SELECT on the table being copied to, and check if some of the tuples we're about to insert exist. If we run BEFORE ROW triggers for a bunch of tuples first, and only then insert them, none of the trigger invocations will see the other rows as inserted yet. Similarly, if we run AFTER ROW triggers after inserting a bunch of tuples, the trigger for each of the insertions would see all the inserted rows.

Don't we run AFTER ROW triggers after inserting *all* the tuples anyway? At least this is what we do in the case of INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE if I'm not mistaken.

best regards,
Florian Pflug