Re: Turning off triggers ?

If you look at a pg_dump file, you will find:

UPDATE "pg_class" SET "reltriggers" = 0 WHERE "relname" = '<table
name>';

UPDATE pg_class SET reltriggers = (
SELECT count(*) FROM pg_trigger where pg_class.oid = tgrelid)
WHERE relname = '<table name>';

The first statemant turn off trigers, the second turns them back on.

JLL

Adam Witney wrote:
>
> Never tried this myself but there is an entry in the cookbook pages that, on
> the face of it seems to do what you are asking...
>
> http://www.brasileiro.net:8080/postgres/cookbook/view-one-recipe.adp?recipe_
> id=5925
>
> > On 25 Nov 2002, Glen Eustace wrote:
> >
> >> Is there a way that all the triggers associated with a table can be
> >> turned off ? I would like to be able to bulk load a table ( I have to
> >> use inserts not copy ) and I don't want the triggers to fire. Once
> >> loaded I want to turn them back on again. This process will be repeated
> >> quite often ( during the development phase).
>
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