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Re: ALTER TABLE TODO items

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

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>, Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-05-06T03:00:29Z
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> writes:
> > Does that mean I'll want to disable triggers while I do this?
> 
> Hrm.  Right now the code does not fire triggers at all, but that seems
> wrong.  However, I doubt that very many triggers could cope with update
> events in which the old and new rows have different rowtypes :-(.
> Any thoughts what to do about that?

If triggers exist, I think we should just throw a warning that triggers
will not be fired.

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