On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 09:09:09AM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
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> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/bug-reporting.html
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>
> Hi
> I was stumbling across the trigger function
> ‘suppress_redundant_updates_trigger’ in
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/functions-trigger.html and I would
> just ask if there is any reason of this not being int the documentation in
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/sql-createtrigger.html.
> So after
>
> Call a function to log updates of accounts, but only if something changed:
>
> CREATE TRIGGER log_update
> AFTER UPDATE ON accounts
> FOR EACH ROW
> WHEN (OLD.* IS DISTINCT FROM NEW.*)
> EXECUTE FUNCTION log_account_update();
>
> There could be an alternative implementation as well
>
> CREATE TRIGGER log_update
> AFTER UPDATE ON accounts
> FOR EACH ROW
> EXECUTE FUNCTION log_account_update();
>
> CREATE TRIGGER suppress_redundant_account_after_updates
> AFTER UPDATE ON accounts
> FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE FUNCTION suppress_redundant_updates_trigger();
>
>
> Just to introduce and like the feature.
>
> Thank you for your great work best regards
I have created the attached patch to mention
suppress_redundant_updates_trigger() in this case. I don't think having
an actual example is warranted.
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