Re: detect initiator of update/delete action

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 9:52 AM, ssylla <stefansylla(at)gmx(dot)de> wrote:
> There are two cases:
> 1. if the deletion was executed through a user action, both the update and
> insert statement of the 'table1_del' function should be executed
> 2. if the deletion was initiated through a function fired from another
> table, only the insert statement should be executed

There is nothing that allows a trigger to distinguish such kind of invocation.
However there is a different kind of approach that comes into my mind
and that I would try: within the trigger test for a specific temporary
table and a value into it. In the case the trigger is invoked
"directly" (1) the table will not be created, while in the case of a
trigger chain the other trigger is responsible for populating the temp
table (and the current trigger to truncate it). Of course a drawback
of this approach is that you need to create and populate the temp
table on each trigger of an higher level in the call chain.

Luca