Simon Riggs wrote:
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 17:16 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
A recent discussion led me to the idea that FK triggers are fired
unnecessarily during an UPDATE if the foreign-key column(s) contain
any NULLs, because ri_KeysEqual() treats two nulls as unequal,
and therefore we conclude the row has changed when it has not.
FK trigger *can be optimised away* is true. No need to have a discussion
about whether NULL == NULL, but the critical test is: if I overwrote it,
would you be able to tell? The answer is No, so away it goes.
The test should perhaps be named "unchanged" rather than "equal".
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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