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From: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Clarify how triggers relate to transactions
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 13:24:53 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Tue, 2021-04-27 at 14:26 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> 
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/sql-createtrigger.html
> Description:
> 
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createtrigger.html mentions the
> word "transaction" only once, in reference specifically to constraint
> triggers: "They can be fired either at the end of the statement causing the
> triggering event, or at the end of the containing transaction; in the latter
> case they are said to be deferred."
> 
> If I understand correctly, it would be helpful to add this sentence or a
> corrected version of it: "Triggers always execute in the same transaction as
> the triggering event, and if a trigger fails, the transaction is rolled
> back."

Good idea in principle, but I'd put that information on
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/trigger-definition.html

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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