Re: Rewritten rows on unchanged values

From: Chris Angelico <rosuav(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Rewritten rows on unchanged values
Date: 2013-03-24 00:42:28
Message-ID: CAPTjJmoBkd5CoB3vrwJKhAZoMiEDfEPQ=vDGsRKtjsp+oCOXsQ@mail.gmail.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-general

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Bertrand Janin <b(at)janin(dot)com> wrote:
> Tom is right, this would be an optimization for a corner case, I noticed this
> when running a generated script for a batch update that wasn't given a ton of
> attention. The BEFORE UPDATE trigger will work great.

If you know the app, just tweak its one query:

UPDATE demo
SET value = some_value
WHERE id = 1 AND value != some_value;

ChrisA

In response to

Browse pgsql-general by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Misa Simic 2013-03-24 02:25:32 PostgreSQL and VIEWS
Previous Message John R Pierce 2013-03-24 00:40:28 Re: Need advice on best system to choose