Re: Triggers with DO functionality

On 17 February 2012 16:43, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
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> On 02/17/2012 11:29 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
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>> On Feb 17, 2012, at 5:22 AM, Thom Brown wrote:
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>>> The purpose being to only have a single statement to set up the
>>> trigger rather than setting up a separate trigger function which will
>>> unlikely be re-used by other triggers... or is this of dubious
>>> benefit?
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>> +1, though I imagine it would just give it a generated name and save it
>> anyway, eh?
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> Before we rush into this, let's consider all the wrinkles. For example, what
> if you need to change the function? And how would you edit the function in
> psql? It might be a bit more involved that it seems at first glance,
> although my initial reaction was the same as David's.

Why not just...

CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER my_trigger...

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Thom