On 2018/06/29 6:23, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 6/28/18 22:52, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >>> Couldn't psql chase the pg_depend links to find inherited triggers? >> >> Yeah, I thought this would be exceedingly ugly, but apparently it's not >> *that* bad -- see the attached patch, which relies on the fact that >> triggers don't otherwise depend on other triggers. We don't use this >> technique elsewhere in psql though. > > Yeah, relying on pg_depend to detect relationships between catalog > objects is a bit evil. We do use this for detecting sequences linked to > tables, which also has its share of problems. Ideally, there would be a > column in pg_trigger, perhaps, that makes this link explicit. But we > are looking here for a solution without catalog changes, I believe.
+1 if that gets the job done. Thanks, Amit