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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
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To: <mallah@trade-india.com>, <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: disabling triggers
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 10:58:44 -0700
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Mallah,

> Is setting reltriggers=3D0 on pg_class an  accepatble way of
> disabling triggers on a table temporarily?

Yes.  pg_dump does this.

> secondly is it worth having commands like
> alter trigger <triggername> inactive;
> alter trigger <triggername> active ;
> i feel such commands exists on Oracle.

No, since DROP TRIGGER ... CREATE TRIGGER does the same thing in Postgres.

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-Josh Berkus
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