Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> ... If the trigger is succeeding (ie, >> detecting a no-op update) often enough that it would be worth that, >> you've really got an application-stupidity problem to fix.
> ISTM the whole point of suppress_redundant_updates_trigger is to cope > with application stupidity. I think it's a suitable band-aid for limited amounts of stupidity. But it eliminates only a small fraction of the total overhead involved in a useless update command. So I remain of the opinion that if that's happening a lot, you're better off fixing the problem somewhere upstream. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers