Re: triggers and inheritance tree

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think the problem is that the UPDATE or DELETE can only fire once a
>> matching row has been identified, so that OLD can be filled in
>> appropriately.  But in this case, the matching row gets found not in
>> the parent table, but in one of its child tables.  So any triggers on
>> the child table would fire, but triggers on the parent table will not.
>
> ah! and of course that makes a lot of sense...
> how embarrasing! :(

If it's any consolation, when I initially looked at your example, I
couldn't see what was wrong with it, either.  After I ran it I figured
it out.  :-)

--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company