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Re: ALTER TABLE TODO items

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-05-05T19:50:02Z
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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?

			regards, tom lane