Re: Retiring support for pre-7.3 FK constraint triggers

On 3/5/20 9:42 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> On 2020-Mar-05, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>>> While looking at the tg_updatedcols patch I happened to notice that we still
>>> support pre-7.3 constraint triggers by converting them on the fly.  AFAICT this
>>> requires a pre-7.3 dump to hit.
> 
>> I know it's a late in the cycle for patches in commitfest, but why not
>> consider this for pg13 nonetheless?  It seems simple enough.  Also, per
>> https://coverage.postgresql.org/src/backend/commands/trigger.c.gcov.html
>> this is the only large chunk of uncovered code in commands/trigger.c.
> 
> +1 --- I think this fits in well with my nearby proposal to remove
> OPAQUE, which is also only relevant for pre-7.3 dumps.  Let's just
> nuke that stuff.

+1.  CF entry added:

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/27/2506

Regards,
-- 
-David
david@pgmasters.net