Re: triggers and FK cascades

From: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: David Johnston <polobo(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: triggers and FK cascades
Date: 2011-03-18 08:20:01
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There's a generic trigger that sends a signal to a process whenever
changes are made (via listen/notify mechanism), but when FK cascade
fires it will cause a mass amount of notifies to be send out and I
want to avoid it.

2011/3/18 David Johnston <polobo(at)yahoo(dot)com>:
> Don't know if this would work but could you check to see if the corresponding PK exists on A?
>
> It may also help to explain why you would want to do such a thing so that someone may be able to provide an alternative solution as opposed to simply responding to a generic feature question.
>
> David J.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Grzegorz Jaskiewicz
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 6:41 PM
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> Subject: [GENERAL] triggers and FK cascades
>
> Considering the following example.
> Tables A and B.
> Table A contains some data.
> Table B reefers to table A using FK with 'on delete cascade'. Table B has a trigger on it, after delete per row
>
> Now, is there any way I can tell in the trigger on table B that it has been called from a direct delete on that table, as oppose to the indirect (FK) delete on table A?
>
> Trigger is PLpg/SQL or C function.
>
>
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