Re: A problem with dump/restore of views containing whole row references

On 04/27/2012 12:02 PM, Abbas Butt wrote:
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>     However, is this a change we really want to make?:
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>       pg_get_triggerdef
>      
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>       - CREATE TRIGGER modified_any BEFORE UPDATE OF a ON main_table
>     FOR EACH ROW WHEN (old.* IS DISTINCT FROM new.*) EXECUTE PROCEDURE
>     trigger_func('modified_any')
>       +                                                              
>                        pg_get_triggerdef
>      
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>       + CREATE TRIGGER modified_any BEFORE UPDATE OF a ON main_table
>     FOR EACH ROW WHEN (old.*::main_table IS DISTINCT FROM
>     new.*::main_table) EXECUTE PROCEDURE trigger_func('modified_any')
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>     Maybe we need to be a bit more selective about when the cast is
>     supplied. It's not adding any extra disambiguation (or clarity) here.
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> I ran the regression and found that my patch is causing a diff in the 
> trigger test case, thats why I changed the expected output of the test 
> case accordingly. This is a side effect of the change I did to fix the 
> bug.
>

Right, what I'm asking is whether or not we actually want that side 
effect in all cases, and specifically in this case where it's clearly 
not necessary.

cheers

andrew