On 06/23/2009 02:37 PM, Alexander Staubo wrote:
> (That said, I believe PostgreSQL diffs tuple updates, so in practice
> PostgreSQL might not be writing anything if you run an "update" with
> the same value. I will let someone more intimate with the internal
> details of updates to comment on this.)
No, it does not do that by default.
You can write a trigger to do that though - and there is one packaged
with the core version in the upcoming 8.4 version.
Andres