Re: Porting MSSQL to PGSQL (Was: [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS

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

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>, Mischa Sandberg <mischa@ca.sophos.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-05-22T20:39:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
OK, I created a "trigger" section and moved "referential integrity"
under "SQL commands".

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Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 03:11:14PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> > -- Start of PGP signed section.
> > > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:41:59AM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > > > > CREATE TRIGGER name { BEFORE | AFTER } { event [ OR ... ] }
> > > > >     ON table FOR EACH STATEMENT
> > > > >     EXECUTE PROCEDURE funcname ( arguments )
> > > >  
> > > > And that doesn't give you any information on the rows that were
> > > > modified. Other RDBMSes will provide a NEW rowset and an OLD rowset that
> > > > you can select from inside the trigger as if they were real tables.
> > > 
> > > Is this on the TODO list? It doesn't seem too difficult to create a
> > > tuplestore and store the NEW and OLD tuples there and pass the whole
> > > set to the trigger.
> > 
> > TODO has:
> > 
> > 	* Allow statement-level triggers to access modified rows
> 
> No wonder I missed it, it's under the RI section. :)
> 
> Actually, it looks like there's a bunch of things in there that are
> generic trigger issues and not really RI issues. And some of those are
> exact duplicates of the triggers section... wee!
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