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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:19:39 +0100
From: Louis-Claude Canon <louis-claude.canon@femto-st.fr>
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To: Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Incomplete compatibility information for triggers
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Le 14/11/2012 05:23, Josh Kupershmidt a =E9crit :
> 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) c=
laims
>> that a missing functionality is the ability to define aliases for the =
"old"
>> and "new" rows or tables. If I am understanding this correctly, anothe=
r
>> related missing functionality is that PostgreSQL does not allow the ol=
d and
>> new tables to be referenced for statement-level triggers (i.e., the "O=
LD
>> 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 a=
lias
>> feature.
> +1, it seems like a useful missing piece from the SQL:2011 standard.
> Care to send a documentation patch?

Let me know if it requires a second round.

By the way, I can propose another patch regarding the transaction=20
isolation relatively to my previous post on pgsql-bugs.

Louis

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