Re: CREATE TABLE LIKE INCLUDING TRIGGERS
Zsolt Parragi <zsolt.parragi@percona.com>
From: Zsolt Parragi <zsolt.parragi@percona.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2026-05-27T22:53:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hello!
Sorry for the late reply, somehow I missed the previous updates.
I found one more problematic scenario, I think the patch should ignore
INSTEAD OF triggers:
CREATE TABLE base (id int, val text);
CREATE VIEW v_instead AS SELECT id, val FROM base;
CREATE FUNCTION v_instead_ins() RETURNS trigger LANGUAGE plpgsql AS $$
BEGIN
INSERT INTO base VALUES (NEW.id, NEW.val);
RETURN NEW;
END;
$$;
CREATE TRIGGER v_instead_trg
INSTEAD OF INSERT ON v_instead
FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE FUNCTION v_instead_ins();
-- currently fails
-- ERROR: "t_all" is a table
-- DETAIL: Tables cannot have INSTEAD OF triggers.
CREATE TABLE t_all (LIKE v_instead INCLUDING ALL);
And also, either I don't understand something here, or the diff can be
simplified a bit:
- /* Transform expression. Copy to be sure we don't modify original */
- whenClause = transformWhereClause(pstate,
- copyObject(stmt->whenClause),
- EXPR_KIND_TRIGGER_WHEN,
- "WHEN");
- /* we have to fix its collations too */
- assign_expr_collations(pstate, whenClause);
+ if (stmt->transformed)
+ whenClause = stmt->whenClause;
+ else
+ {
+ /* Transform expression. Copy to be sure we don't modify original */
+ whenClause = transformWhereClause(pstate,
+ copyObject(stmt->whenClause),
+ EXPR_KIND_TRIGGER_WHEN,
+ "WHEN");
+
+ /* we have to fix its collations too */
+ assign_expr_collations(pstate, whenClause);
+
+ stmt->transformed = true;
+ }
Do we need the last assignment in this diff? It sets
stmt->transformed, but we don't actually transform the statement, we
create a copy. The flag also doesn't seem to be used after that.
Everything seems to work fine if I remove this assignment, and we
don't need the const related function signature changes without it.