Re: FK triggers misused?

[Andrew - Supernews <andrew+nonews(at)supernews(dot)com>]

On 2007-04-15, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> cluster <skrald(at)amossen(dot)dk> writes:
>> It seems that the FK triggers for the table are evaluated even though
>> none of the FK columns are altered.
>
> Hm, they're not supposed to be, at least not in reasonably modern
> PG releases (and one that breaks out trigger runtime in EXPLAIN ANALYZE
> should be modern enough IIRC).  Exactly which PG release are you
> running?  Can you provide a self-contained test case?

Looking at current CVS code the RI check seems to be skipped on update of
the _referred to_ table if the old and new values match, but not on update
of the _referring_ table.

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