Doc: note that statement-level view triggers require an INSTEAD OF trigger.
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Doc: note that statement-level view triggers require an INSTEAD OF trigger. If a view lacks an INSTEAD OF trigger, DML on it can only work by rewriting the command into a command on the underlying base table(s). Then we will fire triggers attached to those table(s), not those for the view. This seems appropriate from a consistency standpoint, but nowhere was the behavior explicitly documented, so let's do that. There was some discussion of throwing an error or warning if a statement trigger is created on a view without creating a row INSTEAD OF trigger. But a simple implementation of that would result in dump/restore ordering hazards. Given that it's been like this all along, and we hadn't heard a complaint till now, a documentation improvement seems sufficient. Per bug #15106 from Pu Qun. Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152083391168.1215.16892140713507052796@wrigleys.postgresql.org
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- BUG #15106: The AFTER trigger is created separately on view, and the DML operation can not trigger the trigger 4 messages · 2018-03-12 → 2018-03-18