Re: plperl function fails to "fire" Slony trigger

From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Sven Willenberger <sven(at)dmv(dot)com>, postgres-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: plperl function fails to "fire" Slony trigger
Date: 2005-04-22 18:24:57
Message-ID: 42694179.1030806@Yahoo.com
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On 4/22/2005 2:08 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Sven Willenberger <sven(at)dmv(dot)com> writes:
>> We have a replication set up between 2 servers using Slony; both are
>> runnind PostgreSQL 8.0.1. The issue is that when updates/inserts are
>> made to a replicated table, the replication does not occur; apparently
>> this is due to spi_exec somehow not allowing/causing the slony trigger
>> function to fire.
>
> Yuck :-(. The only idea that comes to mind is that 8.0 changed the
> timing of trigger firing --- the triggers are probably firing while your
> function still has control, whereas in earlier releases they'd only fire
> after it returns. Could this be breaking some assumption Slony makes
> about the order of operations?
>
> regards, tom lane

Slony triggers are AFTER ROW triggers. All they do is one SPI_execp() to
insert the log row. The only way that could possibly be suppressed is by
bypassing the executor and doing direct heap_ access.

So how does plperl manage that?

Jan

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