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This prevents surprising behavior when a FOR EACH ROW trigger BEFORE UPDATE or BEFORE DELETE directly or indirectly updates or deletes the the old row. Prior to this patch the requested action on the row could be silently ignored while all triggered actions based on the occurence of the requested action could be committed. One example of how this could happen is if the BEFORE DELETE trigger for a "parent" row deleted "children" which had trigger functions to update summary or status data on the parent. This also prevents similar surprising problems if the query has a volatile function which updates a target row while it is already being updated. There are related issues present in FOR UPDATE cursors and READ COMMITTED queries which are not handled by this patch. These issues need further evalution to determine what change, if any, is needed. Where the new error messages are generated, in most cases the best fix will be to move code from the BEFORE trigger to an AFTER trigger. Where this is not feasible, the trigger can avoid the error by re-issuing the triggering statement and returning NULL. Documentation changes will be submitted in a separate patch. Kevin Grittner and Tom Lane with input from Florian Pflug and Robert Haas, based on problems encountered during conversion of Wisconsin Circuit Court trigger logic to plpgsql triggers.
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