On Friday 02 June 2006 00:54, Mario Medina wrote: > Hi! does it exists any way to make that a trigger be disabled only for > one insert and for other inserts not? > > I have a table, every insert,update or delete on it activates a trigger > that do some tasks, but i wish that when i call special > insert/update/delete on that table the trigger doesn't starts... > > The only way i think to do that is to start a transaction, delete the > trigger, do the insert on the table, create the trigger again an commit > the transaction..., and another is to make the trigger to check some > value, and if that value is 1 the trigger works, if it is 0 the trigger > doesn't, but i wish to know if it is a better way. > You can do this with alter table... see http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-altertable.html -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: http://www.brighterlamp.org