Re: Manual Trigger Creation

Stephan,

> Yeah, it doesn't play nice with alter table at all. :(
> Actually, for recreating -- All you really need to do is kill the
> three triggers that it creates (drop trigger should work) and use
> alter table to add them again.

How can I drop them if they are <unnamed> triggers?  I've been doing
that by editing pg_trigger, but that just got me into a system table
mess that it took 2 hours to fix ... and lost me half my foriegn keys to
boot.

Is there, perhaps, a way I can name my constraints in the original
CREATE TABLE statement?  Aha! I see ... I never noticed the optional
[CONSTRAINT constraint_name] phrase before.  'S what I get for crossing
over from Transact-SQL without retraining!

> You could do this (4 is unnecessary and 3 and 5 can be combined),
> although
> I think you might be better off using alter table add constraint to
> do
> that.

I'm interested in the approach for another reason.  I have a number of
tables that must match a NON-UNIQUE value in a reference table, and thus
I'd like to test them against a query or view.

-Josh Berkus


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