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From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Gerardo Herzig <gherzig@fmed.uba.ar>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: trigger for TRUNCATE?
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:24:35 +0000
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> My thinking is that a TRUNCATE trigger is a per-statement trigger which
>> doesn't have access to the set of deleted rows (Replicator uses it that
>> way -- we replicate the truncate action, and replay it on the replica).
>> In that way it would be different from a per-statement trigger for
>> DELETE.
> 
> Ah, right.  I was thinking in terms of having TRUNCATE actually fire the
> existing ON DELETE-type triggers, but that's not really helpful --- you'd
> need a separate trigger-event type.  So we could just say by fiat that
> an ON TRUNCATE trigger doesn't get any rowset information, even after we
> add that for the other types of statement-level triggers.

I've always considered TRUNCATE to be DDL rather than DML. I mentally 
group it with DROP TABLE rather than DELETE>

-- 
   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd



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