Re: Triggers on columns

On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 10:52:09AM +0900, Itagaki Takahiro wrote:
> Here is a patch to implement "Support triggers on columns" in our ToDo list.
> 
> The syntax is:
>     CREATE TRIGGER name
>         BEFORE UPDATE OF col1, col12, ...
>         ON tbl FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE func();

Kudos!

> 
> I consulted the previous work following:
>     Column-level triggers (From: Greg Sabino Mullane, Date: 2005-07-04)
>     http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-07/msg00107.php
> and completed some under-construction parts.
> 
> It's still arguable that we should add dependencies from column
> triggers to referenced columns.

+1 for adding the dependencies.

Cheers,
David.
> In the present patch, dropeed
> columns are just ignored and always considered as not-modified.
> Please grep with "TODO: (TRIGGER)" to check the issue.
> 
> Comments welcome.
> 
> Regards,
> ---
> ITAGAKI Takahiro
> NTT Open Source Software Center


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