Re: Triggers and COPY

From: Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in>
To: Ericson Smith <eric(at)did-it(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Triggers and COPY
Date: 2003-09-25 15:06:26
Message-ID: 3F730472.5040006@persistent.co.in
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Ericson Smith wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to prevent a trigger from firing during a COPY operation?
>
> We have a case where we dump the records from a table, truncate it, and
> copy the records back in. However, there is a trigger on that table,
> which will insert a record in a logging table. Is there a way to prevent
> this trigger from firing during the COPY FROM process?

Can you drop the trigger during copy? I don't know following will exactly work
but something like..

begin
drop trigger
copy
recreate trigger
commit;

could do trick for you..

HTH

Shridhar

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