Re: pre-commit triggers

On 2013-11-19 12:45:27 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 11/19/2013 08:42 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> > Could you explain a bit what the use case of this is and why it's not
> > sufficient to allow constraint triggers to work on a statement level?
> > "Just" that there would be multiple ones fired?
>
> The main reason is to enforce arbitrary assertions which need
> enforcement at the end of a transaction and not before. For example:
> [...]
> You can't enforce this at the statement level because the
> update/insert/deletes can happen in any order on the various tables.

That's why I suggested adding statement level constraint triggers
(should be a farily small patch), which can be deferred till commit. The
problem there is that they can be triggered several times, but that can
relatively easily accounted for in user code.

I can't really say why, but commit time even triggers make me nervous...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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