Re: [HACKERS] update_pg_pwd trigger does not work very well

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2000-02-28T00:18:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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> Tom Lane writes:
> 
> > 1. Since the trigger is executed as soon as a tuple is inserted/
> > updated/deleted, it will write pg_pwd before the transaction is
> > committed.  If you then abort the transaction, pg_pwd contains wrong
> > data.
> 
> Wow, that implies that every trigger that contains non-database
> side-effects is potentially bogus. That never occured to me. Perhaps (as a
> future plan), it would be a good idea to have deferred triggers as well?
> Now that I think of it, wasn't that the very reason Jan had to invent the
> separate constraint triggers?

Yes!  I remember him talking about this.  I bet you can just modify your
trigger to be of that type.


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