Re: minimal update

Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 14:43 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>> There seems to be a preponderance of opinion for doing this as a 
>> builtin. Here is a patch that does it that way, along with docs and 
>> regression test.
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> In your example you use an underscore as the first character. The way
> you have done this it will probably exclude any other before row
> triggers from firing, which may have altered the value of one or more
> columns. The more probable choice for me would be to have a trigger that
> came after all other before triggers, and so should have a different
> name. It's just an example, so your choice is fine, but I think you
> should bring out that point more clearly for the average developer.
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Fair point. I'll add that to the docs.

> Can we call the function "minimal_update_trigger", rather than min_...
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If that's the general consensus, sure. I have no strong opinion.

cheers

andrew