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    Tag: trigger

    18.10.2022 | Laurenz Albe

    Why are my PostgreSQL updates getting slower?

    © Laurenz Albe 2022 Recently, a customer asked me why a bulk load into a PostgreSQL table kept slowing down as time went by. They saw that it was a trigger on the table that took longer and longer, and in that trigger, the updates were getting slower all the time. Now slow updates are […]

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    01.02.2022 | Laurenz Albe

    Automatic partition creation in PostgreSQL

    © Laurenz Albe 2022 Table partitioning is one of the best-liked features out of the more recent PostgreSQL developments. However, there is no support for automatic partition creation yet. This article shows what you can do to remedy that. Use cases for automatic partition creation There are essentially two use cases: Create partitions triggered by […]

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    22.04.2021 | Laurenz Albe

    What to return from a PostgreSQL row level trigger?

    © Laurenz Albe 2021 In this article, I’ll talk about row level triggers, which are the most frequently used kind of triggers. I will describe what the return value of the trigger function means and suggest a useful code simplification. Triggers in PostgreSQL A trigger in PostgreSQL consists of two parts: a trigger function the […]

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    23.02.2021 | Hans-Jürgen Schönig

    PostgreSQL: How to write a trigger

    Just like in most databases, in PostgreSQL a trigger is a way to automatically respond to events. Maybe you want to run a function if data is inserted into a table. Maybe you want to audit the deletion of data, or simply respond to some UPDATE statement. That is exactly what a trigger is good […]

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    04.07.2018 | Laurenz Albe

    rules or triggers to log bulk updates?

      Inspired by my co-worker’s recent blog post, I decided to revisit the old question of rules vs. triggers and run a little benchmark to see which one does better. About rules While triggers are well known to most application developers and database administrators, rules are less well known. The full name “query rewrite rule” […]

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