Re: TRIGGER with WHEN clause

Kouhei Kaigai <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>

From: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>
To: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-11-19T01:09:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Itagaki-san,

I don't have any more comments in this patch, so I hope it to be reviewed
by committers then upstreamed.

Thanks for your good jobs.

Itagaki Takahiro wrote:
> KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> wrote:
> 
>> In addition, I could find a few matters.
>> * TOAST may be necessary for pg_trigger?
> 
> I added toast relation to pg_trigger.
>     DECLARE_TOAST(pg_trigger, 2336, 2337);
> 
> I think having a toast relation for pg_trigger is reasonable
> because pg_trigger already has a variable field "tgargs"
> even if we don't have the new field "tgqual" from the patch.
> I'm not sure why we don't have a toast relation for pg_trigger
> because user might pass very long trigger arguments.
> 
>> * ROW INSERT TRIGGER on COPY FROM statement
> 
> Thanks. Good catch! Fixed and regression test added.
> 
>> * Using system column in WHEN clause
>> 2) Describe a notice on the user documentation not to use system columns
>>    in the WHEN clause, because these are assigned on after the trigger
>>    invocations.
> 
> I'd like to only add documentation because I don't have a whole solution.
> ----
> System columns are not available in the <literal>WHEN</> clause
> because those values are initialized after triggers are called.
> They might return wrong values if they used in expressions of the clause.
> ----
> 
> Regards,
> ---
> ITAGAKI Takahiro
> NTT Open Source Software Center
> 


-- 
OSS Platform Development Division, NEC
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>