2010/4/14 MagnOz <macnoz@...>:

> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 16:23, Daniel Albuschat <d.albuschat@...> wrote:
>> I have a table with a "before update" trigger. In some special cases,
>> I want to update this table without triggering that trigger.
>> My guess is that "alter trigger <trigger> inactive" will make it
>> inactive to all other transactions, too, right?
>
> Correct.
>
>> Or is it possible to make it inactive, update the table and make it
>> active again, without interfering with other transactions?

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> What you could do as a workaround is to add a new field to the table, like this:

Yeah, that was the only workaround I could come up with, too. The
problem is that the table in question is one of the biggest tables in
the database and I don't want to add unnecessary fields to it. :-(
Another way would be to create a referenced table that includes this
field only for locked entries in the main table. That would actually
be quite viable, since the table will never include more than 1, maybe
2 entries and hence lookups will be very fast.

Thanks for the replies!

Regards,
Daniel Albuschat

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