Hi! On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 1:16 AM Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If Mitar finds that suppress_redundant_updates_trigger is sufficient, that may be a simpler solution. Thanks for mentioning it. > > The suppress_redundant_updates_trigger uses memcmp on the old and new rows. I don't know if memcmp will be sufficient in this case, since json can be binary unequal and yet turn out to be equal once cast to jsonb. I was using the rule and casting the json column to jsonb before comparing for equality. Very interesting, I didn't know about that trigger. Memcmp is OK for my use case. This is why I am considering *= as well. I am guessing that if I am already doing a row comparison on every UPDATE before my AFTER trigger so that I do not run the trigger (the rule-based approach suggested by Mark), it is probably better to do the row comparison as a BEFORE trigger which prevents the UPDATE from even happening. I already pay for the row comparison so at least I could prevent the disk write as well. Do I understand that correctly? So the only remaining question is how to prevent my statement trigger from running if no rows end up being changed by INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE without having to use REFERENCING. Mitar -- http://mitar.tnode.com/ https://twitter.com/mitar_m
