Remove bogus restriction from BEFORE UPDATE triggers
authorAlvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Thu, 28 Jan 2021 19:56:07 +0000 (16:56 -0300)
committerAlvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Thu, 28 Jan 2021 19:56:07 +0000 (16:56 -0300)
commit6f5c8a8ec23f8ab00da4d2b77bfc8af2a578c4d3
tree3c3c1391b7119830ea9418ca982de95bb9058c08
parent1d9351a87c9a9e82c7091aab03d9299982670ce0
Remove bogus restriction from BEFORE UPDATE triggers

In trying to protect the user from inconsistent behavior, commit
487e9861d0cf "Enable BEFORE row-level triggers for partitioned tables"
tried to prevent BEFORE UPDATE FOR EACH ROW triggers from moving the row
from one partition to another.  However, it turns out that the
restriction is wrong in two ways: first, it fails spuriously, preventing
valid situations from working, as in bug #16794; and second, they don't
protect from any misbehavior, because tuple routing would cope anyway.

Fix by removing that restriction.

We keep the same restriction on BEFORE INSERT FOR EACH ROW triggers,
though.  It is valid and useful there.  In the future we could remove it
by having tuple reroute work for inserts as it does for updates.

Backpatch to 13.

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reported-by: Phillip Menke <pg@pmenke.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16794-350a655580fbb9ae@postgresql.org
doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
src/backend/commands/trigger.c
src/test/regress/expected/triggers.out
src/test/regress/sql/triggers.sql