On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think the problem is that the UPDATE or DELETE can only fire once a
> matching row has been identified, so that OLD can be filled in
> appropriately.  But in this case, the matching row gets found not in
> the parent table, but in one of its child tables.  So any triggers on
> the child table would fire, but triggers on the parent table will not.
>

ah! and of course that makes a lot of sense...
how embarrasing! :(

-- 
Jaime Casanova         www.2ndQuadrant.com
Professional PostgreSQL: Soporte 24x7 y capacitación

-- 
Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org)
To make changes to your subscription:
http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Reply via email to