Re: [PATCHES] enable/disable trigger (Re: Fwd: Open items)

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Oh, and one trick for disabling triggers in a single session is to do
> > this:
> 
> >     BEGIN WORK;
> >     ALTER TABLE xx DISABLE TRIGGER ALL
> >     ...
> >     ALTER TABLE xx ENABLE TRIGGER ALL
> >     COMMIT WORK;
> 
> > In this case, the triggers are disabled just for that session.
> 
> ... but everybody else is locked out completely, because the ALTER takes
> an exclusive lock on the table.  It's a bit misleading to describe that
> as a local change.

Oh, I had not considered that.

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