On 6 December 2012 00:46, Robert Haas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Simon Riggs <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Yes, but it is also the trigger writers problem.
>
> Maybe to some degree.  I don't think that a server crash or something
> like a block-read error is ever tolerable though, no matter how silly
> the user is with their event trigger logic.  If we go down that road
> it will be impossible to know whether errors that are currently
> reliable indicators of software or hardware problems are in fact
> caused by event triggers.   Of course, if an event trigger causes the
> system to error out in some softer way, that's perfectly fine...

How are event triggers more dangerous than normal triggers/functions?

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