Il giorno 03/apr/09, alle ore 16:58, Tom Lane ha scritto:
"James B. Byrne" <byrn...@harte-lyne.ca> writes:
I am beginning to migrate some functionality from an application
prototype into the DBMS. One of these elements is time stamping row
insertions and updates.
I have been reading about rules, functions and triggers in regards
to this issue. So, of course, now I have myself completely
befuddled. From what I can determine from the documentation, it
makes little difference to the DBMS whether I set a rule on insert
and one on update for each table or define a function and set a
trigger for insert or update on each table.
If this is indeed the case then which way is the preferred method?
A trigger is very much preferred. Rules are not as easy as they look.
Triggers are a bit more notationally cumbersome, but they tend to
do what you expect without any surprises.
Are there some situations when using a rule is clearly superior than a
trigger?
I experimented with rules, with good result, but I’d rethink my
approach if triggers are more "reliable".
Thank you in advance
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Giorgio Valoti
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