On 28 February 2012 15:03, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> writes:
>> Well the problem is that you can add commands to a trigger en masse,
>> but you can only remove them one at a time. Couldn't we at least
>> allow the removal of multiple commands at the same time? The docs you
>> wrote suggest you can do this, but you can't.
>
> This seems over-complicated. Triggers on tables do not have alterable
> properties, why should command triggers? I vote for
>
> CREATE COMMAND TRIGGER name ... properties ...;
>
> DROP COMMAND TRIGGER name;
>
> full stop. If you want to run the same trigger function on some more
> commands, add another trigger name.
This would make more sense, particularly since dropping a command
trigger, as it stands, doesn't necessarily drop the trigger.
--
Thom