On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 04:19:37PM +1200, David Rowley wrote: > On Sat, 20 Aug 2022 at 09:18, Justin Pryzby <pry...@telsasoft.com> wrote: > > Is it somwhow possible to call CreateTrigger() to create a FOR EACH ROW > > trigger, with an index, and not internally ? > > I've been looking over this and I very much agree that the code looks > very broken. As for whether this is dead code or not, I've been > looking at that too... > > At trigger.c:1147 we have: if (partition_recurse). partition_recurse > can only ever be true if isInternal == false per trigger.c:367's > "partition_recurse = !isInternal && stmt->row &&". isInternal is a > parameter to the function. Also, the code in question only triggers > when the indexOid parameter is a valid oid. So it should just be a > matter of looking for usages of CreateTriggerFiringOn() which pass > isInternal as false and pass a valid indexOid. > > There seems to be no direct calls doing this, but we do also call this > function via CreateTrigger() and I can see only 1 call to > CreateTrigger() that passes isInternal as false, but that explicitly > passes indexOid as InvalidOid, so this code looks very much dead to > me. > > Alvaro, any objections to just ripping this out? aka, the attached.
It's possible that extensions or 3rd party code or forks use this, no ? In that case, it might be "not dead" .. > + * that ever changes then we'll need to quite code here to find > the quite? write? quire? acquire? quine? -- Justin