Doc: note that statement-level view triggers require an INSTEAD OF trigger.
If a view lacks an INSTEAD OF trigger, DML on it can only work by rewriting
the command into a command on the underlying base table(s). Then we will
fire triggers attached to those table(s), not those for the view. This
seems appropriate from a consistency standpoint, but nowhere was the
behavior explicitly documented, so let's do that.
There was some discussion of throwing an error or warning if a statement
trigger is created on a view without creating a row INSTEAD OF trigger.
But a simple implementation of that would result in dump/restore ordering
hazards. Given that it's been like this all along, and we hadn't heard
a complaint till now, a documentation improvement seems sufficient.
Per bug #15106 from Pu Qun. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152083391168.1215.16892140713507052796@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Branch
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REL9_4_STABLE
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/b1e48cc9c79ce9d4bd6f1297ce54089781b9f97d
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doc/src/sgml/ref/create_trigger.sgml | 13 +++++++++++++
doc/src/sgml/trigger.sgml | 12 +++++++++---
2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)