Re: triggers and inheritance tree

From: Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: triggers and inheritance tree
Date: 2012-03-28 14:46:18
Message-ID: CAJKUy5ho-jwTXLQxsehFsCZs-kvVCm_v7ajHrSwbEqTRUE9Z=g@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> I think the problem is that the UPDATE or DELETE can only fire once a
> matching row has been identified, so that OLD can be filled in
> appropriately.  But in this case, the matching row gets found not in
> the parent table, but in one of its child tables.  So any triggers on
> the child table would fire, but triggers on the parent table will not.
>

ah! and of course that makes a lot of sense...
how embarrasing! :(

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