Re: [GENERAL] disable trigger from transaction

2005-01-25 Thread Terry Lee Tucker
I'm glad your curiosity got the best of you ;o) I was planning to test it out, but didn't have the time to do it. I too, was very curious as to what the ramifications of dropping the trigger would be in that scenario. Now, we know :o) On Monday 24 January 2005 11:07 pm, Jeff Davis saith: > It g

Re: [GENERAL] disable trigger from transaction

2005-01-24 Thread Jeff Davis
It got me curious enough that I tested it, and apparently droping a trigger locks the table. Any actions on that table must wait until the transaction that drops the trigger finishes. So, technically my system works, but requires a rather nasty lock while the transaction (the one that doesn't want

Re: [GENERAL] disable trigger from transaction

2005-01-24 Thread Terry Lee Tucker
I don't know if droping a trigger inside a transaction will work. Besides that, we want the trigger to do its work in all other circumstances. With a hundred connections on the database, I don't know what kind of issues that would cause if the trigger were there, and suddenly, not there. We figu

Re: [GENERAL] disable trigger from transaction

2005-01-24 Thread Jeff Davis
Would it work to just do a DROP TRIGGER at the begining of the transaction and a CREATE TRIGGER at the end? Regards, Jeff Davis On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 06:50 -0500, Terry Lee Tucker wrote: > Razvan, > > I don't believe there is a way of doing this from by way of some postgreSQL > command.

Re: [GENERAL] disable trigger from transaction

2005-01-24 Thread Terry Lee Tucker
Razvan, I don't believe there is a way of doing this from by way of some postgreSQL command. We accomplish this by creating a table called "override". It is defined as: recid | integer| not null default nextval('public.override_recid_seq'::text) trig_name | chara