Re: Triggers Operations

On 02/25/2015 06:14 PM, Emanuel Araújo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an application that replicates data from an Oracle database for
> postgresql. The flow goes as follows:
>
> oracle.table1 -> AppSincronizador -> postgresql.table1 -> Trigger (upd,
> ins, del) -> postgresql.table2
>
> I'm having situations where the data volume is large that the changes
> that should be in the final table are not found, getting the tables in
> postgresql nosync. Well, the application makes a single transaction and
> makes commits every 1000 records.

How large?

>
> It is as if the triggers disabled, when manually do the operation is
> performed. Is there a BUG or situation where the postgresql disable
> these triggers?

Hard to say without seeing the trigger definition or the code it is calling.

>
>
> So Version: CentOS 6.5
> PostgreSQL 9.3.5
> Oracle: 11G
>
> I found this POST that explain once situation.
>
> AFTER triggers are more expensive than BEFORE triggers because They must
> be queued up Until the statement finishes doing its work, Then executed.
> They are not spilled to disk if the queue gets big (at least in 9.4 and
> below, may change in future) are huge queues AFTER trigger can cause
> memory available to overrun, Resulting in the statement aborting.
>
> Link:
> http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/88761/scaling-postgresql-triggers
>
> PS. Right now I'm not interested in the performance, as this take care
> later, but the question that there are random operations that do not
> complete for the final table.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> *Atenciosamente,
>
> Emanuel Araújo*
> */Linux Certified, DBA PostgreSQL
> /*


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