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+From jllachan@nsd.ca Tue Nov 26 14:42:05 2002
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+Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:41:47 -0500
+From: Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan@nsd.ca>
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+To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
+cc: Christoph Dalitz <christoph.dalitz@hs-niederrhein.de>,
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+Subject: Re: [GENERAL] ALTER TRIGGER DISABLE/ENABLE
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+I think thte sintax should be:
+
+ALTER TABLE DISABLE|ENABLE TRIGGER {trigger name}|ALL
+
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+
+Bruce Momjian wrote:
+> 
+> Christoph Dalitz wrote:
+> > Hello,
+> >
+> > while there have been suggested some hacks on the system catalog
+> > for disabling/enabling triggers, these have two serious disadvantages:
+> >
+> >  - they cannot be done by the owner of the trigger
+> >    (only the DBA has write access to the system catalog)
+> >  - messing in the system catalog for simple DB schema changes makes
+> >    most users feel uneasy
+> >
+> > Oracle has an SQL command "ALTER TRIGGER triggername DISABLE|ENABLE".
+> > Were it possible to put this command on the TODO list for a future PG release?
+> 
+> Already on TODO list:
+> 
+>         * Allow triggers to be disabled [trigger]
+> 
+> I will add your email to the TODO.detail thread.
+> 
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