Re: Porting MSSQL to PGSQL -- triggers

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> How expensive is this going to be, especially for huge numbers of rows? 
> 
> Certainly cheaper than firing a per-row trigger.

I'm curious: I've never written a MSSQL trigger that did NOT use the 
INSERTED/DELETED pseudotables (aka NEW/OLD). I know STATEMENT-level triggers 
have existed in PG for a while ... but what do people use them for???

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