Hi Kristian, I was thnking that may be I could look at how to implement 'if there is no REFERENCING clause in crate trigger definition, then don't keep before and after copies.' or is that something you are already looking at. I don't want to duplicate the work if you are already looking at this and other scenarios for triggers so thought would check with you first before doing any work.
I am almost finished up writing the stand alone test cases for various scenarios for triggers and LOB combinations. Hope to have those tests posted in jira by tomorrow. The reason they are standalone is that at this point, I do not know if there is any way to have the iteration of steps a)do the necessary setup for the test b)run the associated test for the setup with limited heap to have it run into OOM and then go back to a) for the next test. thanks, Mamta On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Kristian Waagan <[email protected]> wrote: > Knut Anders Hatlen wrote: >> >> Mamta Satoor <[email protected]> writes: >> >> >>> >>> Rick, thanks as always. All this makes sense. My recent emails about >>> trigger behaviors are to see where we can avoid having before and >>> after copies of the LOB columns in the triggering table so we don't >>> run into OOM when it can be avoided. >>> >>> Since the only way to pass before and old values to the stored >>> procedure in trigger action is through formal arguments, then I guess >>> we can safely assume that before and after values of LOB columns from >>> triggering tables will never make their way into stored procedure. The >>> Derby Reference manual says "Note: Data-types such as BLOB, CLOB, LONG >>> VARCHAR, LONG VARCHAR FOR BIT DATA, and XML are not allowed as >>> parameters in a CREATE PROCEDURE statement." >>> >> >> This limitation is likely to be lifted, though. See DERBY-4066. >> >> >>> >>> So based on the fact that stored procedure gets before and old values >>> through parameters and LOBs can't be passed as parameters to stored >>> procedure, there is no need for us to keep before and after values of >>> LOB columns from the triggering table when the trigger action is a >>> stored procedure. >>> >> >> I haven't looked at the code, so I don't know how viable the different >> approaches are, but I would think that looking at which columns the >> different triggers actually reference is a more robust way to determine >> which columns to copy into the before and after images. Then we would >> save memory/copying for trigger actions that don't call stored >> procedures too, and also for non-LOB types. >> >> > > I agree with Knut Anders on this one, it would be nice if we could determine > which columns to copy. > > That said, as part of my current LOB work, I'm looking at how to avoid > materializing (or objectifying) LOB columns for triggers. This will > definitely help for the cases where the LOB columns aren't referenced / > used, and it may also enable us to keep the values as streams in other cases > where the LOB is actually used in the trigger. > This work is still in the early phase, but I have been able to remove some > of the work-arounds / fixes put in place earlier. It is not yet clear to me > if this approach will get me anywhere, but I'll investigate further. > > > Regards, > -- > Kristian > >
