On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> I found in an old pgsql dump something like :
>
> UPDATE "pg_class" SET "reltriggers" = 0 WHERE "relname" ~* 'TABLE NAME';
>
> inserts....
>
> BEGIN TRANSACTION;
> CREATE TEMP TABLE "tr" ("tmp_relname" name, "tmp_reltriggers" smallint);
> INSERT INTO "tr" SELECT C."relname", count(T."oid") FROM "pg_class" C,
> "pg_trigger" T WHERE C."oid" = T."tgrelid" AND C."relname" ~* 'TABLE NAME'
> GROUP BY 1;
> UPDATE "pg_class" SET "reltriggers" = TMP."tmp_reltriggers" FROM "tr" TMP
> WHERE "pg_class"."relname" = TMP."tmp_relname";
> DROP TABLE "tr";
> COMMIT TRANSACTION;
>
> Which was supposed to disable triggers on this table during the inserts. It
> was on 7.0.x I believe, It still work with 7.2.3, but I was wondering if it
> was the right way to do.
For right now, I believe so as long as you don't want the inserted rows
to be checked at all.