Re: Why are triggers semi-deferred?

At 08:20 AM 5/05/2003 -0700, Stephan Szabo wrote:
>it might be better to make times that the
>triggers can run be choosable (with the spec behavior becoming default
>eventually) because we've got backward compatibility issues and we've kind
>overloaded the trigger system to do the foreign keys which have their own
>timing issues.

I think you are right here too; we need some way to make the triggers 
function according to the spec, as well as to preserve compatibility for 
constraint settings -- at least constrint triggers should fire when the 
constraints expect it, and normal triggers should fire when the spec says 
they should fire.



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