Another way to approach this would be to add a trigger to your table
in the database, that rejects updates that don't change any values.
You'd basically have to hard code that same logic (new.a != old.a or
new.b != old.b ...) and it'd fire on every update, so you're talking
about trading computatio
One strategy is to use some sort of middleware that takes care of this. On
a project I did a few years ago, I used a perl module that read the record
from Postgres and made it into a perl object. The object contained a
variable, "changed", that reflected whether anything had actually changed
in the
