Re: Disable Trigger for session only

On 06/29/2015 01:34 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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>> "gmb" asks:
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>> I'm in a position where the most logical/effective way of doing an update
>> (data fix) is this:
>> ALTER TABLE temp DISABLE TRIGGER trigname;
>> UPDATE temp ..... DO SOME STUFF....
>> ALTER TABLE temp DISABLE TRIGGER trigname;
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> Presume you meant ENABLE here.
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>> It cannot be guaranteed that the above happens as a single transaction.
>>
>> I'm aware that session_replication_role can be used as alternative to
>> disable triggers, and have been using it in other scenarios. But in this
>> case i'd like to choose which trigger to disable (I want other triggers on
>> table temp to still occur).
>>
>> Is there any other alternatives to this ?
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> You can use session_replication_role (srr). One of its settings is 'local', which
> basically means "act the exact same as the default, 'origin', but with
> a different name". Thus, you can teach the trigger you want to get disabled
> to short-circuit if srr is set to local. Inside plpgsql it would look something
> like this:
>
> ...
> DECLARE
>    myst TEXT;
> BEGIN
>    SELECT INTO myst setting FROM pg_settings WHERE name = 'session_replication_role';
>    IF myst = 'local' THEN
>      RETURN;
>    END IF;
>
> ...normal trigger code here...
> END;
> ...
>
> Then, just issue a SET session_replication_role = 'local', and the trigger will
> not do anything for that session only:
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> BEGIN;
> SET LOCAL session_replication_role = 'local';
> UPDATE temp ..... DO SOME STUFF....
> COMMIT;

Wow, that is a whole lot cleaner solution then what I came up with. I 
will have to remember that for future use.

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>> If I encapsulate the "disable trigger/update/enable trigger" in BEGIN/COMMIT
>> to handle as single transaction, are there guarantees that the disabling of
>> the trigger will not have an effect on other sessions ?
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> It will cause heavy locking but should otherwise have no effect. But using
> session_replication_role is a cleaner solution, IMHO.
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