Re: minimal update

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>     
>>> A BEFORE UPDATE trigger would be better, and probably hardly more
>>> expensive than a wired-in facility (especially if you were willing to
>>> write it in C).
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>   
>> Yes. I also  prefer the trigger idea to a rule because triggers are easy 
>> to enable  and disable. It's still a lot of work for what must be a 
>> common want, though. Could it be done generically?
>>     
>
> Well, you could write the trigger in C and it'd work for any table.
> I think it could be as simple as a memcmp of the tuples' data areas,
> since we now require padding bytes to be 0 ...
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Ah. Good. Thanks, that's the piece I was missing.

cheers

andrew