On 11/15/19 12:57 PM, John Lumby wrote:
> Adrian Klaver wrote :
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>> On 11/15/19 10:37 AM, John Lumby wrote:
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>>> Suppose the original statement is
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>>> UPDATE myview VW set VW.counter = 11 where VW.primary_key = xxxx and VW.counter = 10;
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>>> and my trigger constructs this statement
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>>> UPDATE basetable BT set BT.counter = 11 where BT.primary_key = OLD.primary_key;
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>> Not following.
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>> Do you want OLD.primary_key set to 11 or BT.counter set to 12/both/or
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>> some other action?
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> Sorry I did not make it clear.
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> I want some way for the trigger to discover and apply any predicates *other* than
> primary key equality condition that were applied to the original statement,
> which in the example is
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> VW.counter = 10
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> (the repeated AND in the original append's example was a typo, corrected above)
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> so for this example I want the trigger to build a statement reading
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> UPDATE basetable BT set BT.counter = 11 where BT.primary_key = xxxx and BT.counter = 10;
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> where xxxx is the value of OLD.primary_key
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> so that, if some other transaction had updated BT.counter to some other value such as 11
> in that tiny window I described in previous append,
> the result of the generated statement would be no rows updated and a return TAG of 0 rows.
Seems you are looking for Serializable Isolation Level:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/transaction-iso.html#XACT-SERIALIZABLE
Though the above results in a rollback.
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> The significance being that the original application would be able to discover
> that its update was not applied based on this return TAG
> (actually the trigger returns a null tuple to indicate this).
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>>> Cheers, John
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>> Adrian Klaver
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>> adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
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