Hi:
Are there cases when triggers are faster than rules?
It appears that on the database that I used; rules
used sequential scan while triggers used index scan. I had a table "sc_redeem". There is a rule which I
place on that table. The body of rule is " CREATE RULE rule_update_redeem as ON insert TO sc_redeem DO UPDATE
sc_customer_card SET redeemed = redeemed + new.points, balance = balance - new.points WHERE
customer_id= new.customer_id AND card_type_cd = new.card_type_cd;"
The index of sc_customer_card is on the field
"customer_id". I noticed when I use the SQL statement. EXPLAIN INSERT INTO sc_redeem(....) VALUES (....);
It reported that it performed a sequential scan on the
table sc_customer_card (around 100,000+ records w/
unique customer id for each record).
I tried converting the rule to function & trigger
and it reported that it used an Index scan given the
same INSERT statement.
I was wondering why the rule used sequentail scan
and the equivalent function trigger used index scan.
Thank you,
ludwig lim
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