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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2018-01-31 17:00:17 -0500 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2018-01-31 17:00:17 -0500 |
| commit | 1cf1112990cff432b53a74a0ac9ca897ce8a7688 (patch) | |
| tree | 1482242b83c527cb64c7d4ca5fd193f8d3ea9698 | |
| parent | 3b15255912af3fa428fbc296d830292ffc8c9803 (diff) | |
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doc: clearify trigger behavior for inheritance
The previous wording added in PG 10 wasn't specific enough about the
behavior of statement and row triggers when using inheritance.
Reported-by: ian@thepathcentral.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171129193934.27108.30796@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 10
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/ref/create_trigger.sgml | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_trigger.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_trigger.sgml index a8c0b5725d6..dab10411302 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_trigger.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_trigger.sgml @@ -501,9 +501,10 @@ UPDATE OF <replaceable>column_name1</replaceable> [, <replaceable>column_name2</ <para> Modifying a partitioned table or a table with inheritance children fires - statement-level triggers directly attached to that table, but not + statement-level triggers attached to the explicitly named table, but not statement-level triggers for its partitions or child tables. In contrast, - row-level triggers are fired for all affected partitions or child tables. + row-level triggers are fired on the rows in effected partitions or + child tables, even if they are not explicitly named in the query. If a statement-level trigger has been defined with transition relations named by a <literal>REFERENCING</literal> clause, then before and after images of rows are visible from all affected partitions or child tables. |