On 2015-05-01 10:06:42 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > > would you rather have EXCLUDED.data refer to the tuple version from > > VALUES (or a SELECT or ...) or to version from the BEFORE trigger? > > I think it would be completely shocking if it didn't refer to the > version returned by the BEFORE trigger. My interpretation of the > semantics of BEFORE triggers is that, once the trigger has fired and > returned a new tuple, things should proceed just as if that new tuple > were the one originally provided by the user.
Well, it's a BEFORE INSERT trigger, not a BEFORE UPDATE, that's why I'm not so sure that argument applies. Peter also leaned in "your" direction and you apparently have a strong opinion on it... So I guess that'll be it unless somebody else weighs in. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
