Re: Incomplete compatibility information for triggers

On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Louis-Claude Canon
<louis-claude.canon@femto-st.fr> wrote:

> the compatibility section of the "create trigger" page
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/sql-createtrigger.html) claims
> that a missing functionality is the ability to define aliases for the "old"
> and "new" rows or tables. If I am understanding this correctly, another
> related missing functionality is that PostgreSQL does not allow the old and
> new tables to be referenced for statement-level triggers (i.e., the "OLD
> TABLE" that contains all the deleted/modified rows in case of
> deletion/update). I think this is also worth noting as any workaround for it
> seems to be more difficult (if possible at all) than for the missing alias
> feature.

+1, it seems like a useful missing piece from the SQL:2011 standard.
Care to send a documentation patch?

Josh