Re: should I worry?

Ah, yes it was the quotes. I guess that makes me a newbie. :)

On Nov 5, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>> Rick Gigger wrote:
>>> Doesn't DROP TRIGGER require the name of the trigger? He says
>>> they are
>>> unnamed. How then does he drop them?
>
>> They're not really unnamed. pg_dump just replaces the real name with
>> "<unnamed>".
>
> And \d will show the real names of the triggers, so it's not really
> that hard to drop them:
>
> u=# \d t1
> Table "public.t1"
> Column | Type | Modifiers
> --------+---------+-----------
> f1 | integer | not null
> Indexes:
> "t1_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (f1)
> Triggers:
> "RI_ConstraintTrigger_229629" AFTER DELETE ON t1 FROM t2 NOT
> DEFERRABLE INITIALLY IMMEDIATE FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE
> "RI_FKey_noaction_del"('<unnamed>', 't2', 't1', 'UNSPECIFIED', 'f2',
> 'f1')
> "RI_ConstraintTrigger_229630" AFTER UPDATE ON t1 FROM t2 NOT
> DEFERRABLE INITIALLY IMMEDIATE FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE
> "RI_FKey_noaction_upd"('<unnamed>', 't2', 't1', 'UNSPECIFIED', 'f2',
> 'f1')
>
> u=# drop trigger "RI_ConstraintTrigger_229629" on t1;
> DROP TRIGGER
>
> I do recall newbies forgetting to double-quote the mixed-case trigger
> names when this came up in times past, though.
>
> regards, tom lane
>