Re: [DOCS] Confusing Trigger Docs.

2023-12-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 08:59:02PM +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote: > On Fri, 2023-11-24 at 13:14 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 08:36:34AM +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote: > > > On Wed, 2023-11-22 at 14:49 -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote: > > > > I don't think that your proposed wording

Re: [DOCS] Confusing Trigger Docs.

2023-11-26 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Fri, 2023-11-24 at 13:14 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 08:36:34AM +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote: > > On Wed, 2023-11-22 at 14:49 -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote: > > > I don't think that your proposed wording for this is an improvement. > > > > Well, the existing wording is imp

Re: [DOCS] Confusing Trigger Docs.

2023-11-24 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 08:36:34AM +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote: > On Wed, 2023-11-22 at 14:49 -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote: > > I don't think that your proposed wording for this is an improvement. > > Well, the existing wording is impenetrable even for someone with some > PostgreSQL knowledge, like

Re: [DOCS] Confusing Trigger Docs.

2023-11-22 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Wed, 2023-11-22 at 14:49 -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote: > I don't think that your proposed wording for this is an improvement. Well, the existing wording is impenetrable even for someone with some PostgreSQL knowledge, like me. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: [DOCS] Confusing Trigger Docs.

2023-11-22 Thread Peter Geoghegan
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 1:13 PM Bruce Momjian wrote: > I think I found out what it trying to say by looking at the INSERT > manual page: > > Note that the effects of all per-row BEFORE > INSERT triggers are reflected in > excluded values, since those effects may > h

Re: [DOCS] Confusing Trigger Docs.

2023-11-22 Thread David G. Johnston
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 2:13 PM Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 10:31:25AM +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote: > > I agree that the paragraph you are trying to improve needs it. > > > > I am not sure about that last sentence you added: > > > > The modification of > > EXCLUDED columns ha

Re: [DOCS] Confusing Trigger Docs.

2023-11-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 10:31:25AM +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote: > I agree that the paragraph you are trying to improve needs it. > > I am not sure about that last sentence you added: > > The modification of > EXCLUDED columns has similar interactions. > > How do you modify an EXCLUDED column?

Re: [DOCS] Confusing Trigger Docs.

2023-11-22 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Tue, 2023-11-21 at 21:01 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 09:22:22AM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 6:25 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 08:07:10PM +, n...@fairwindsoft.com wrote: > > > > The following documentation comm

Re: [DOCS] Confusing Trigger Docs.

2023-11-21 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 09:22:22AM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 6:25 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 08:07:10PM +, n...@fairwindsoft.com wrote: > >> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > >> > >> Page: https://www.p