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@ 2019-02-08 09:51 PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org>
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The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/sql-createtrigger.html
Description:
The behaviour is not clear for BEFORE Statement-level Trigger. This is
because transition tables cannot be used. So how does one get access to the
rows being affected?
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@ 2019-02-08 10:06 PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org>
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From: PG Doc comments form @ 2019-02-08 10:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
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The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/sql-createtrigger.html
Description:
The AFTER Statement-level Trigger runs into infinite execution when another
set of rows are affected for the same table through this trigger. Consider
this use case where a table storage_locations that manages a hierarchy of
storage_locations in stores, and thus having following columns (for
simplicity):
storage_location_id SERIAL NOT NULL
PRIMARY KEY,
store_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
-- REFERENCES stores
storage_location_nm VARCHAR (25) NOT NULL,
parent_storage_location_id INTEGER NULL
REFERENCES storage_locations, ---- NULL for root storage locations
storage_location_path TEXT NOT NULL
I have a BEFORE ROW trigger, which updates the storage_location_path with
parent's storage_location_path, if any, concatenated with its
storage_location_name. This works fine - no issues.
I have another AFTER UPDATE STATEMENT-level Trigger and function definitions
as below (which updates the storage_path of the children):
CREATE FUNCTION TRG_storage_locations_b_u_AS_DML ()
RETURNS TRIGGER
AS $$
DECLARE
v_separator VARCHAR (1) = '/';
v_cnt INT;
BEGIN
-- [ -- Required to prevent infinite
recursion
SELECT COUNT (*)
INTO v_cnt
FROM new_table;
IF (v_cnt > 0) THEN
-- ] -- Required to prevent infinite
recursion
UPDATE storage_locations
SET storage_location_path = COALESCE (i.storage_location_path ||
v_separator, '') || storage_locations.storage_location_nm
FROM inserted i
JOIN deleted d
ON ( i.storage_location_id = d.storage_location_id
AND i.storage_location_path != d.storage_location_path
)
WHERE storage_locations.parent_storage_location_id = i.storage_location_id;
END IF;
RETURN NULL;
END
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
CREATE TRIGGER storage_locations_b_u_AS_DML
AFTER UPDATE
ON storage_locations
REFERENCING NEW TABLE AS inserted
OLD TABLE AS deleted
FOR EACH STATEMENT EXECUTE FUNCTION TRG_storage_locations_b_u_AS_DML ();
Notice that the Trigger is getting called endlessly (if the number of rows
in the NEW TABLE are NOT checked). I reckon if there are not any rows, what
is the need to call the trigger. Or, may be, I am missing something, which I
need to learn.
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