On 2017/05/03 2:48, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 3:30 AM, Amit Langote
> <langote_amit...@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
>> You're right.  I agree that whatever text we add here should be pointing
>> out that statement-level triggers of affected child tables are not fired,
>> when root parent is specified in the command.
>>
>> Since there was least some talk of changing that behavior for regular
>> inheritance so that statement triggers of any affected children are fired
>> [1], I thought we shouldn't say something general that applies to both
>> inheritance and partitioning.  But since nothing has happened in that
>> regard, we might as well.
>>
>> How about the attached?
> 
> Looks better, but I think we should say "statement" instead of
> "operation" for consistency with the previous paragraph, and it
> certainly shouldn't be capitalized.

Agreed, done.  Attached updated patch.

Thanks,
Amit
>From 1d7e383c6d89ebabacc7aa3f7d9987779daaa4fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: amit <amitlangot...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 14:55:08 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify statement trigger behavior with inheritance

---
 doc/src/sgml/trigger.sgml | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/trigger.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/trigger.sgml
index 6f8416dda7..89e8c01a71 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/trigger.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/trigger.sgml
@@ -123,6 +123,14 @@
    </para>
 
    <para>
+    A statement that targets the root table in a inheritance or partitioning
+    hierarchy does not cause the statement-level triggers of affected child
+    tables to be fired; only the root table's statement-level triggers are
+    fired.  However, row-level triggers of any affected child tables will be
+    fired.
+   </para>
+
+   <para>
     If an <command>INSERT</command> contains an <literal>ON CONFLICT
     DO UPDATE</> clause, it is possible that the effects of all
     row-level <literal>BEFORE</> <command>INSERT</command> triggers
-- 
2.11.0

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