Re: System triggers

From: Doug McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>
To: sailesh(at)cs(dot)berkeley(dot)edu
Cc: Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: System triggers
Date: 2003-05-16 18:11:24
Message-ID: m3he7ubw37.fsf@varsoon.wireboard.com
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Sailesh Krishnamurthy <sailesh(at)cs(dot)berkeley(dot)edu> writes:

> >>>>> "Doug" == Doug McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org> writes:
>
> Doug> Of course, what happens to the output (if any) from those
> Doug> triggers, given that the client probably doesn't expect it,
> Doug> is an interesting question...
>
> What are the actions of pgsql triggers ? I would have thought they
> result in Update/Delete/Insert operations on other tables. Why should
> that result in output for any client ?

They still (IIRC) return results (like 'INSERT 1 10002') to the
client end of the connection, and there's no a-priori reason they
couldn't do SELECTS as well...

-Doug

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