I don't know if droping a trigger inside a transaction will work. Besides that, we want the trigger to do its work in all other circumstances. With a hundred connections on the database, I don't know what kind of issues that would cause if the trigger were there, and suddenly, not there. We figured this was a safe approach. On Monday 24 January 2005 01:27 pm, Jeff Davis saith: > Would it work to just do a DROP TRIGGER at the begining of the > transaction and a CREATE TRIGGER at the end? > > Regards, > Jeff Davis > > On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 06:50 -0500, Terry Lee Tucker wrote: > > Razvan, > > > > I don't believe there is a way of doing this from by way of some > > postgreSQL command. We accomplish this by creating a table called > > "override". It is defined as: > > recid | integer | not null default > > nextval('public.override_recid_seq'::text) > > trig_name | character varying | not null > > pid | integer | not null > > batch | character varying | not null > > Indexes: > > "override_pkey" primary key, btree (recid) > > "override_pid_key" unique, btree (pid, trig_name) > > "override_pid_pkey1" btree (pid, batch) > > > > We use this table to accomplish what you are talking about. We insert > > into the table the trigger name, pid, and some made up string into batch. > > We use batch so we can provide different levels of override, but you may > > not need that. For the triggers we are interested in overriding, we code > > them to check for the existance of a record in override that matches the > > trigger name and the pid, and possibly, a batch name. If we find an > > override record, we simply return. > > > > Here is an example: > > SELECT INTO ovrRec * FROM override WHERE > > pid = pg_backend_pid () AND trig_name = name; > > IF FOUND THEN > > IF dbg THEN > > RAISE NOTICE ''%: Overriding'', name; > > END IF; > > RETURN true; -- outa here > > END IF; > > RETURN false; > > > > Actually, we put the above code into a function and call the function > > from triggers that we may need to override from some other place. > > > > Maybe some of the others have a better way. Hope this helps. > > > > On Monday 24 January 2005 06:02 am, Postgres General saith: > > > hello, > > > > > > I am interested in disabling a trigger from a transaction. > > > I am not want to disable the trigger globally but only for the current > > > transaction. > > > > > > Can I do it somehow ? > > > > > > > > > thanks, > > > Razvan Radu > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------(end of > > > broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our > > > extensive FAQ? > > > > > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq > > > > __ > > Work: 1-336-372-6812 > > Cell: 1-336-363-4719 > > email: terry@xxxxxxxx > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq -- Work: 1-336-372-6812 Cell: 1-336-363-4719 email: terry@xxxxxxxx ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org