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Subject: Re: GUC for temporarily disabling event triggers
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> Maybe we should back up and ask why we need more than "on" and "off".
> If somebody is using this feature in any form more than very
> occasionally, they should really go home and reconsider their database
> schema.

+1 ... this seems perhaps overdesigned.

			regards, tom lane