Re: Clarify how triggers relate to transactions
Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: him@nathanmlong.com, pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2021-04-28T11:24:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-docs
On Tue, 2021-04-27 at 14:26 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote: > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/sql-createtrigger.html > Description: > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createtrigger.html mentions the > word "transaction" only once, in reference specifically to constraint > triggers: "They can be fired either at the end of the statement causing the > triggering event, or at the end of the containing transaction; in the latter > case they are said to be deferred." > > If I understand correctly, it would be helpful to add this sentence or a > corrected version of it: "Triggers always execute in the same transaction as > the triggering event, and if a trigger fails, the transaction is rolled > back." Good idea in principle, but I'd put that information on https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/trigger-definition.html Yours, Laurenz Albe
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Doc: clarify how triggers relate to transactions.
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