Re: Truncate Triggers

From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
To: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Truncate Triggers
Date: 2008-01-26 16:55:47
Message-ID: 479B6613.6010707@pse-consulting.de
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Robert Treat wrote:
> On Friday 25 January 2008 06:40, Simon Riggs wrote:
>
>> Notes: As the syntax shows, these would be statement-level triggers
>> (only). Requesting row level triggers will cause an error. [As Chris
>> Browne explained, if people really want, they can use these facilities
>> to create a Before Statement trigger that executes a DELETE, which then
>> fires row level calls.]
>>
>>
>
> This seems to completly hand-wave away the idea of implementing row level
> visibility in statement level triggers, something I am hoping to see
> implemented somewhere down the line. Am I missing something?
>
>
The rowset (not row) associated with the statement level trigger would
be the whole table in case of a TRUNCATE trigger, so in this (corner)
case it's not too helpful.

Regards,
Andreas

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