Re: FOR EACH ROW triggers on partitioned tables

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 7:06 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> Thomas Munro wrote:
>> +create trigger failed after update on parted_trig
>> +  referencing old table as old_table
>> +  for each statement execute procedure trigger_nothing();
>>
>> It doesn't fail as you apparently expected.  Perhaps it was supposed
>> to be "for each row" so you could hit your new error with
>> errdetail("Triggers on partitioned tables cannot have transition
>> tables.")?
>
> You're absolutely right.  Fixed in the attached version.

+create trigger failed after update on parted_trig
+  referencing old table as old_table
+  for each row execute procedure trigger_nothing();
+ERROR:  "parted_trig" is a partitioned table
+DETAIL:  Triggers on partitioned tables cannot have transition tables.

I think this should probably say "row-level".  Statement-level
triggers on partitioned tables can have transition tables.

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Thomas Munro
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